Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity

How did America cease to be the land of opportunity?

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We take it for granted that good neighborhoods—with good schools and good housing—are only accessible to the wealthy. But in America, this wasn’t always the case.

Though for most of world history, your prospects were tied to where you were born, Americans came up with a revolutionary idea: If you didn’t like your lot in life, you could find a better location and reinvent yourself there. Ameri...