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I recall a claim from a few years ago that social mobility in the US is declining and that Denmark now does better. Wouldn't surprise me, but wouldn't vouch for it either, since it was the NYT.
Don't disrespect the paper so many Pulizter prize winning journalists such as Walter Duranty and Nicole Hannah-Jones have worked for.
Lindybeige has a neat video on upward mobility where he suggests that a free society would start with an explosion of upward mobility and then eventually settle once most people have gotten to be where they are needed. And then this would change only as the needs of a society change.
More likely though, I think newer heavy regulations prohibit poorer people from breaking into the middle class.