Making it easier/cheaper to get an education != forced education. Looking at a trend and making a pretty fair assumption about it having cause/effect tendencie

Making it easier/cheaper to get an education != forced education. Looking at a trend and making a pretty fair assumption about it having cause/effect tendencies is not "missing the point" of statistics about employment and education. As far as I can tell, it's the whole reason we collect them. One does not become employed to become educated, it's the other way around. Similarly, one does not fail to become educated because one failed to be employed. There might be less of a connection than some would claim, but the link is there. Further, I would be eager to hear about a __practical__ alternative to improved education for reducing inequality. I'm sure there are some, but I'm also sure that making sweeping assumptions about the economic viability of being {religion}/{race}/{insert difference here} doesn't really help anyone unless there's a magical way to make the human brain more tolerant of difference. Surely the real solutions to inequality will come from assessing our weakest points and shoring them up -- education is a pretty weak point in the US right now.