PAINTINGS 1 - Economic Inequality
Downwardly Mobile
Oil on linen
36 x 36 inches
In “Downwardly Mobile,” a sequence of red dots bouncing downhill traces the declining percentage of 30-year-olds who are making more money than their parents did at age 30. Ninety percent of children born in 1940 (upper left corner), had higher incomes at age 30 than their parents. By the 1980s (right), the percentage had fallen to 50%.