The Opportunity Agenda's first book, All Things Being Equal, documents critical ideas about the state of opportunity.

When we talk about uninsured kids, dozens to a classroom, being taught by teachers with inadequate training and resources; about mass incarceration with no rehabilitation; about real estate brokers or employment firms that continue to discriminate into the twenty-first century, what we are really talking about are failures of opportunity.

While polls show that 80 percent of Americans believe it is still possible to work your way up from poverty to wealth, in fact the American ideal of opportunity for all is at a crossroads. Class mobility is at an all-time low, racial and gender wage gaps are through the roof, and unequal access to health care threatens the health and economic security of millions of Americans. yet we have it in our power to expand opportunity for everyone in our country. This and other critical ideas about the state of opportunity are documented in All Things Being Equal, the first book from The Opportunity Agenda, an important new voice for reform and improvement across the social spectrum.

In this groundbreaking book, Jared Bernstein writes about the difficulty of transcending the wealth quintile into which you are born, Philip Tegeler discusses the promise and disappointment of housing mobility programs designed to move people closer to employment opportunities, Marc Mauer looks at mass incarceration's impact on opportunity, and Linda Darling-Hammond explores quality education as the road to opportunity. Each offers new ideas for turning these trends around.

Half critique, half road-map-for-the-future, All Things Being Equal includes eight original essays by top-notch thinkers pointing to areas in American life where opportunity is missing and showing us how to instigate it.