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How to discuss wealth gaps with the next generation

My daughter asks why we cannot vacation like her friends' families and I do not know how to explain that we are still catching up financially.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intergenerational mobility creates the challenge of explaining persistence of inequality to children who experience its effects but not its origins.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with First-generation identity?”

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