Quality of education is not the main factor that affects social mobility in the US.

Social mobility is important for fairness: people of ability and initiative shouldn't be stuck working as a sales clerk because their parents did. But social mobility does not make poverty excusable. People who work as sales clerks should be able to have a decent life, as they did a few decades ago.

US citizens: call on Congress to pass real recovery funding and debt relief for Puerto Rico.

US citizens: Tell your congresscritter and senators to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve.

1000 squatters living in a former hotel in São Paulo are threatened with eviction.

Over time, the troll's tax cuts would do even more to enrich the rich.

These tax cuts will be cited as the excuse for spending cuts, which will fall on the non-rich. For most non-rich Americans, the tiny tax cuts will be insignificant compared with the effect of spending cuts. What it adds up to is dooH niboR.

This is not an issue of economics. It is an effect of the raw power of the rich. Power that we must take away from them.