Deindustrialization has played a large part in Baltimore’s growing poverty rate, especially among Black residents.
In 2015, Harvard economists Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren conducted a study on how the socioeconomic conditions of neighborhoods in urban cities, such as Los Angeles, St. Louis, Cleveland, and Newark, can potentially predict a child’s ability to rise out of poverty and achieve upward social mobility.
Chetty and Hendren used “quasi-experimental evidence” to study over five million families through an analysis of U.S. tax records from 1996 to 2012, investigate the sociological factors that influence someone’s upbringing in particular communities, and rank 100 American cities as a prediction of which metropolises offered its youth the most significant potential for economic mobility…