The Land of Opportunity

America is the original meritocracy. The American promise is that people are not prisoners of the circumstances of their birth. Who your parents are or where you were born should not determine your destiny. From the beginning, this has always been one of our self-evident truths. And for many decades, the U.S. had greater social mobility than other developed countries. But that is no longer true. The U.S. now ranks behind France and Finland in terms of the ability of people to move up the economic ladder.

To help restore the promise of the American Dream, we are a co-convener of...

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