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Did declining social mobility cause Trump’s rise? In a word, no. Filipe Campante, David Yanagizawa-Drott, December 9, 2016, Opinion, "There has been a heated debate over the role that that economic factors played in the improbable journey that took Donald Trump all the way to the presidency. “Economic anxiety” is the umbrella term that many pundits have seized on to explain what drove a substantial number of (white) working-class voters to Trump. While economic anxiety is a somewhat vague concept, a decrease in prospects for social mobility is part of the story many have in mind." Link