StuckBy: Yoni Appelbaum How did America cease to be the land of opportunity? LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD We take it for granted that good neighborhoodswith good schools and good housingare only accessible to the wealthy. But in America, this wasnt always the case. Though for most of world history, your prospects were tied to where you were born, Americans came up with a revolutionary idea: If you didnt like your lot in life, you could