Deacon923
Scooter Banks
This map tells the story in one glance: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/01/649701669/the-american-dream-is-harder-to-find-in-some-neighborhoods
The quote is misleading - it's not a coin flip, it's highly dependent on where you are born, and if you are born in a poor neighborhood in the South you are going to stay poor.
"You see that for kids turning 30 today, who were born in the mid-1980s, only 50 percent of them go on to earn more than their parents did," Chetty says. "It's a coin flip as to whether you are now going to achieve the American dream."
The quote is misleading - it's not a coin flip, it's highly dependent on where you are born, and if you are born in a poor neighborhood in the South you are going to stay poor.