The Opportunity Atlas

This system of fair exchange drove extraordinary improvements in global equality, poverty and innovation over decades. But since the early 1990s, social mobility has slowed considerably. According to the OECD, it now takes at least five generations for a child born into a low-income French, German, Korean, British or American family to reach averag... See more

Permanently divorcing physical location from economic opportunity gives us a real shot at radically expanding the number of good jobs in the world while also dramatically improving quality of life for millions, or billions, of people. We may, at long last, shatter the geographic lottery, opening up opportunity to countless people who weren’t lucky ... See more

In the United States, long known as the land of opportunity, the chance of middle-class earners’ moving to the top rungs of the earnings ladder has dropped by approximately 20 percent since the early 1980s