Special Report: The death spiral of an American family: After generations of stability, the Ramseys face debt and a fall from the middle class
| Economists have a term for it — "backwards mobility" — when a life that begins with much promise and momentum slides into the bottom 50 percent of Americans who now have a negative net worth. This is the story of one of those families desperately trying to reverse that three-generation journey. |
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| | | |  |  | | Post investigations, major projects and important reads | | | Special Report | March 20, 1:28 p.m. EDT | | | | | Economists have a term for it — "backwards mobility" — when a life that begins with much promise and momentum slides into the bottom 50 percent of Americans who now have a negative net worth. This is the story of one of those families desperately trying to reverse that three-generation journey. | | | | | |
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