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Growing up I had no idea of the huge wealth gap between the top 1% and the rest of the country. And also how it is nearly impossible to move up to the 1%, and not very many people from poverty move up in social class during their lifetime. The distribution of wealth in the country is skewed so far to the top percent that the middle class is very close to being in poverty. People who are born in a upper middle class family are more likely to go to college and therefore make more money in their lifetime than those who can't afford to go to college. But even if you go to college, you aren't making nearly enough money so it helps to be born into a wealthy family. Social mobility is someone's ability to move up or down from a social class.

        It is way more likely for someone to move down in social class, such as the man from the movie The Line. He was a wealthy man with a family but then something went wrong and he lost everything he had. He had moved from the upper middle class to the lower class . Once he was in the lower class he had a hard time making money and he couldn't move back up in class. In The rendija nickel and dimed Barbara realizes the struggle of living in poverty and how hard it is to make money while in a lower social class. She connected how it is easier to make money if you already have money compared to trying to make money while starting in a lower social class. Living in my area most people have a good amount of wealth and get a steady income. But despite this people can lose their money and fall into poverty relatively easily because the middle and even upper middle class is so close to the lower class that there is just a very small difference. This is a very big problem because the wealth in this country is skewed towards the top 1%.