opportunity
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About 90% of children born in 1945 were earning more than their parents at age 30, but only about 50% of those who were born in 1985 did, according to Harvard’s Opportunity Insights.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
About the authors: Jon Hartley is a policy fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
The plan adopted Tuesday expands the Opportunity Corridor Transition Area, a provision in the Citywide Housing Incentive Program that incentivizes developers to build small, multi-family housing projects near transit.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
Yet children born to low-earning parents in 1992 had a harder time moving into the middle class than the previous generation, according to research from Opportunity Insights, a Harvard-based institute that studies economic mobility.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
Opportunity number two was that the mothers of Lakeside had enough money to pay for the school’s computer fees.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing opportunity
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 1
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