At the first-ever Atlanta Way Day, some of the region’s top leaders faced a big question: How did Atlanta become the lowest-ranked in upward economic mobility, and how can the region change it?

Local nonprofit Atlanta Way 2.0 hosted the event as part of its push to “bring people together to understand issues.” SaportaReport’s founder, Maria Saporta, founded the organization, which is headed by a roster of local leaders from every part of the city’s landscape.

“Then together, as the collective, we begin to make solutions for those hardest and toughest things that we as a community can identify that we haven’t quite figured out,” Board Chair Ann Kramer said.

In its 2024 study, Harvard University’s Raj Chetty and his research group Opportunity Insights ranked Atlanta dead last out of the t

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