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America is the 27th best country for social mobility. Who could have guessed that free access to healthcare and education matters. https://www.weforum.org/repo
by robert_foss 6y ago
America is the 27th best country for social mobility. Who could have guessed that free access to healthcare and education matters.
https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-social-mobility-index-2020-why-economies-benefit-from-fixing-inequality https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-social-mobility-index...
- i_am_proteus 6y agoGiven that the social mobility index used in the report[0] uses access to healthcare and education, along with "social protections" as part of their ranking, it should come as absolutely no surprise that wealthy welfare democracies top the charts here. [0] http://www3.weforum.org/docs/Global_Social_Mobility_Report.pdf http://www3.weforum.org/docs/Global_Social_Mobility_Report.p...
- mensetmanusman 6y agoExactly this, there is no agreed upon standard on how to measure these sorts of things. Everyone has a bias.