What Education Can and Can’t Do for Economic Inequality

Would better education significantly reduce income inequality in America? No, says recent study from the Brookings Institution. According to Melissa Kearney, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, “Increasing education isn’t going to do anything to bring down the wages of the real top—or address rising inequality focused on the 1 percent—but it is what’s needed to increase the position of …

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What Education Can and Can’t Do for Economic Inequality