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The Internet, Inequality, and the “Digital Divide”

Peoples & Things

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Education Is the Solution to Economic Problems, Right?

i've been trying to understand recently, um, how the good old dems got so wedded to education as the solution of policy or economic problems. And part of it is in your moment, but i also see it a bit before. The wage premium for education has falleng through the roof. It fallen through the floor. Its, know, it's very clear this is not the kind of thing that's going to make a especially racial and economic inequality change. But we're still, we're still addicted to it.

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