Greater social mobility will help narrow gap between rich and poor, says WEF

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Only US and Italy have weaker performance than UK among G7 industrialised nations

The organisation that runs the annual Davos event attended by some of the world’s richest people has said greater social mobility would help narrow the gap between rich and poor and boost global growth by almost 5% in the next decade.

 

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words: can we trust them

Well it’s a shame that the bloody centrist idiots at the guardian have just helped elect an extreme right wing govt that does not believe in social mobility

The greatest social mobility was achieved during the era of grammar schools; they recruited from wide areas. Coupled with good secondary modern and technical schools, a positive education for all abilities was achieved. The politics of envy destroyed the system.

seems tautological...

laughable nonsense again

It took a forum to come up with this stating-the-bleeding-obvious pearl?

The 1st step is to stop expecting the government to sort out all your problems for you. They are incompetent - you’d be a fool to put your fate in their hands

.jeremycorbyn Massive barriers to university education are essential for the UK establishment to curtail upward mobility and create a passive population. Only the rich should be allowed through. Doing quite well at the moment! [Devil's Advocate]

Required ingredient for mobility: EDUCATION.

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