land of opportunity

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Meaning: (informal,idiomatic,dated)TheUnited States.They say America is theland of opportunity. Opportunity for what? For children to run in the dirty streets?- Mr Mousekewitz inAn American Tail: Fievel Goes West2013June 7,Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume188, number26, page19:It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being theland of opportunity– with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.

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