I came to America because of equality, because of the gender equality and equality of possibility and this really confirms that.
We love to boast that America is a place of great equality, the land of possibility and social mobility.
"On the specific issue of marriage equality, with the possibility of serious and comprehensive religious protections, I will remain undecided until I see the final bill," Mr. Ball said in a statement.
If child poverty wrecks any possibility of equality of capability, then we will have to make abolishing it our top priority.
Another possibility is that formal equality of opportunity is massively violated in this society, yet non-inclusive FEO is satisfied.
Given that the restrictions could conceivably be sustaining cartels, one might hold that the notion of formal equality of opportunity should be reinterpreted to accommodate this possibility.
"A child's right to survival is the first measure of equality, possibility and freedom," said UNICEF's Executive Director Carol Bellamy at the launch of the report in New York.
In general, the focus of the modern egalitarian effort to realize equality is on the possibility of a good life, i.e., on an equality of life prospects and life circumstances — interpreted in various ways according to various positions in the "equality of what" debate (see above).
A perhaps more interesting possibility is that a society could perfectly satisfy FEO or some other version of substantive equality of opportunity and also exhibit a very low degree of social mobility or even none at all.
Does equality mean equality of outcome?
Equality of misery is still equality.
