We all know that opportunity tends to be distributed unequally. In this episode, you will see why filing your tax return can help fix that. Some countries, some cities and towns and some people seem to get all the breaks. But the lines between those that do well and those that struggle don’t always fall where we expect them to. Professor John Friedman uses administrative data—information collected for an entirely different purpose—to better understand which communities, schools, and even tax policies succeed in providing opportunity.

Friedman also answers a question inspired by Ha-Joon Chang's, "23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism".