From The Atlantic.

Americans used to move all the time to better their lives. Then they stopped. Why?

Read Yoni Appelbaum’s cover story on The Atlantic here (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/american-geographic-social-mobility/681439/) .

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