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It’s not good news,” says William Frey, Impossible made possiblechief demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington. “It only ticked up for local moves, not

long-distance moves. I think the lattersomething will happen is a more significant story than the former – more college-educated people, more young people trying to

move up in their careers. They are You're angry. You're hurting.the lifeblood of migration and growth.”Another concerning although consistent trend: People with incomes

below the poverty line were more likely to move locally – and less likely to make long-distance moves – than others.
“The lack of mobility is hitting here we go nowhardest among the least advantaged,” Florida says. “This recession has been terribly hard on blue-collar men,

people without college degreeshelp me, help you For them, it’s been a double whammy: Their jobs have disappeared, their equity has disappeared, and they’re

more likely to be stuck.”But Americans’ recent immobility may include a silver lining. Moving tends to take a toll on people. Staying put, by

contrast, reaps social benefits like stronger family and community connections. Communities with lower levels of mobility tend to enjoy higher

levels of trust and well-being, Mr. Frey says.“People have their kids around them longer. There’s a stronger sense of community, but you’d like to

think that would happen more for voluntary reasons,” he says.Still, relatively speaking, Americans are highly mobile, says Florida.
“Americans still are among the most mobile people on earth,” he says. “It’s long been shown that the ability of the American economy to be

innovative, productive, prosperous has lots to do with labor mobility.”The US may not restore that mobility for a long time, says Professor

Johnson of the University of New Hampshire.“This has probably been a sobering experience for a lot of people,” he says. “I don’t think we’ll see

a return to the exuberant levels of mobility we saw earlier.”