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Branko Milanovic

The Good Fight

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The Importance of Education in the United States

I agree that when you look at how unequal the economic origin of people at Harvard and Yale is it's just, I mean frankly disgusting. But let me challenge you on that for a moment. If you go to University of Texas at Sun markers, which is not one of the top colleges in the country by any stretch of the imagination, where do you end up in the global income distribution? You actually wind up as part of the population but has had gains over the last 30 years. And then if you have more broadly shared education and ability of the best people to go to the best schools, then you would have more of those people fulfilling the jobs that would be satisfying and would pay well

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