CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS August 18, 2013 17:02:00
European countries do much better at moving poor people up the ladder than the united states. they point out that the united states cannot be compared with denmark, an ethnically homogeneous country of five million people. but in an essay published last week, canada is a very useful point of comparison for the united states because it is much like america. the percentage of foreign-born canadians, for example, is actually higher than americans. and recent research finds that people in canada and australia have twice the economic mobility of americans. what is intriguing is that many of the fac...