One of the core elements of the American Dream is the idea that anyone can make it to the top, regardless of where one starts out in life.
But, according to a 2018 report on intergenerational educational and economic mobility from the World Bank, that dream is more realistic in most other high-income countries than in the US.
The report and its associated Global Database on Intergenerational Mobility include several metrics of how the economic and educational opportunities of children are related to the situations of their parents.
Image: People in the Netherlands have a better shot at upward social mobility than Americans, by one metric. Reuters
