To get more Americans to enroll in and complete college, the theory goes, you can either fix the schools (more teachers, longer school years, more student loans) or fix the students (more nurturing of kids from disadvantaged homes). Both approaches would cost a lot. But if you’re worried about inequality, it’s hard to see any alternative. Hamburger flippers simply don’t command a high wage. We can pass laws to change that — a minimum price for cheeseburgers, maybe — or we can, finally, invest in teaching the flippers to do something else.
<a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/magazine/10wwln-lede-t.html?
ref=magazine&pagewanted=print”>Roger Lowenstein (from the New York Times Magazine).
Thomas J. Mertz
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