Opening the doors of opportunity to every American is an all-hands-on-deck effort. It requires policy reforms and community leadership. It means focusing on a range of issues from unwed childbearing to educational opportunity to economic indicators. The Index of Culture and Opportunity, a new annual publication by the Institute for Family, Community, and Opportunity at the Heritage Foundation, is designed to focus sustained policy and civil-society attention on key areas that matter for Americans’ freedom to thrive.