STUCK IN THE PLACE WHERE YOU ARE BORN The notion that people should be able to choose their own communities - instead of being stuck wherever they happen to be born - is America's most profound contribution to the world. Many of our country's most glaring injustices result from the ways in which this freedom has been denied to those who need it most. America is a nation of migrants. At the end of 19th century roughly 1/3 of all Americans changed addresses each year. On average migrants have always grown more prosperous than those who have stayed in one place. Mobility has been the great engine of American prosperity. But for the last 50 years, the engine of American opportunity has been grinding to a ha...
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