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Study Finds Family More Important Than Education For Success

The rooftops of Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University researchers followed 800 Baltimore kids in a 30-year study.

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The rooftops of Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University researchers followed 800 Baltimore kids in a 30-year study.

Family and wealth — and not education — are the most important factors in whether a child succeeds in life according to 30-year study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Children whose parents were married and working ended up better off than peers in poor or single-parent homes.

Just 33 of the nearly 800 people included in the study went from being considered low-income to considered high-income.

NPR profiled two people included in the study, and you can listen to the story below.

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