America does not have low economic mobility. Last I looked at the statistics, it's not top of the pack, but it's not low, either. Another thing: The primary dri

America does not have low economic mobility. Last I looked at the statistics, it's not top of the pack, but it's not low, either. Another thing: The primary driver of low economic mobility, at least in the US, is lack of that ticket to ride - a degree from a good university - and the poor kids who do go to an Ivy league university end up having high economic mobility, again, due to receiving a degree from a top university. This is really just a nitpick of the part of the article where they said that low economic mobility is a reason why Ivy league universities don't want to admit poor kids. Low economic mobility is not a factor. What they meant to say, probably, is that starting with family money will mean that a rich kid will end up with even more money than the poor kid, on average, and that would be correct AFAIK.