America: Land of Opportunity?
well yes, if you have the opportunity to have rich parents…
Statistical data proves that the overwhelming trend is that US children born poor will become poor adults.
The children of the rich are 6 times more likely to have university degrees by the age of 25.Young people without university degrees, but who have rich parents, are 3 times more likely to be among the richest 20% than low-income young people WITH university degrees.
The perfect inversion of the figures on wealth distribution in America is astonishing. 75% of the population owns only 10% of total wealth in the country, and 10% owns 75% of the wealth; and if you are from the poor75%, you have very little chance of reaching the level of the richest 10%
The higher up you are born, the more upwardly mobile you are.
http://www.demos.org/blog/3/25/14/americas-class-system-across-life-cycle
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