From a broadly macroscopic point-of-view, it most definitely is. A child in Nigeria born to dirt poverty has near zero chance of, for example, having a stable, respectable salary (of our definition) in his or her future. I think microscopically it might be a little controversial to call it deterministic, but my personal anecdotes certainly point that way. I attended a public school in the inner city when I was young, and later moved out of there to a suburbun school. Looking at where the two sets of folks are now with a little Googling and a little Facebooking, the former are not doing well at all; the latter are doing very well. What's more, the folks I expected to be doing well from the inner city crowd are not doing well, and conversely a lot of the slackers from the suburban school are actually doing remarkably, surprisingly well in some cases.
Let's just jump to the punchline and argue if the universe is deterministic or not.