The commission's annual report State of the Nation: 2016 Social Mobility in Great Britain warns that low- and middle-income families are being held back by a "deep social mobility problem" in the UK.
It adds that "treadmill families are running harder and harder, but are standing still".
The report reveals that just one in eight children from low-income backgrounds will become a high earner as an adult, and over the last decade half a million poor children were not school-ready by the age of five.
In addition, children in deprived areas are twice as likely to be in low-quality childcare provision and 27 times more likely to go to a school labelled as inadequate by Ofsted.
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