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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at the components of the social mobility index. It is very heavily weighted towards social safety net provisions. I see very few components on the list that would correspond with what most in the US would associate with opportunities to be socially mobile.[/quote] If the #1 predictor of social mobility is education, then free or lower cost university education has quite a bit to do with social mobility.[/quote] The U.S. provides access to university education to a very broad range of the population. In countries where university is close to free, entrance requirements are set very high and huge swaths of the population are not eligible to attend university based on their performance in lower levels of education. The U.S. university system is much friendlier to the late bloomer.[/quote]
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