Do you know what is the most accurate predictor of you future education, wealth, job satisfaction, health, life span and quality of life?

Your ZIP code.

99% of people who rose out of poverty, did it through hard work and constant effort, but they also had someone to push them from behind, or someone to pull them up. Often it’s a mother who got them inot a better school, where they met a teacher who knew how to get them into a college.

How do most people get their first job — becasue someone in the family knows someone with a buinsses. If everyone in the family, or the neighborhood is working for $8 an hour, who are you going to know?

Why do so many kids in the inner cities end up selling drugs? Becasue that’s who offers them a job.

All we need is a good education for everyone, with equal access to every job.

Simple, but impossible.

That has never been the case in the USA.