>2) What is government supposed to do here exactly? If science and math graduates had comparable earning power prospects to law, finance and medical grads we wo

>2) What is government supposed to do here exactly? If science and math graduates had comparable earning power prospects to law, finance and medical grads we wouldn't be discussing it. Besides, on a university level US schools are top notch. What about doing things to help more people reach this level? I don't have any suggestions in particular, and I think think that this is a hard problem, but it is certainly a worthwhile one.