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31 countries where the ‘American Dream’ is more attainable than in the US

FILE PHOTO: People cool off underneath a tree during a sunny day in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 25, 2019. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw

  • A key part of the American Dream is the idea that anyone can make it to the top, no matter where you come from.
  • But a World Bank report shows that it’s more likely for children from modest backgrounds to reach a higher economic echelon in most countries than it is in the US.
  • Nearly all of the high-income countries in the study fared better on a metric of intergenerational educational mobility than the US.
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Source:: BusinessInsider.Com