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> Making sure that the labor force is educated enough to not need the low-skill labor is good, and it is undeniable that everybody is getting more educated. Th
by copsarebastards 12y ago
> Making sure that the labor force is educated enough to not need the low-skill labor is good, and it is undeniable that everybody is getting more educated.
That's very deniable in the US. The rising cost of education and lack of government funding for education means that many, many people are not getting more educated.
- hsod 12y agoThis graph: http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/education/data/cps/historical/fig1.jpg http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/education/data/cps/histor... and others on this page: http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/education/data/cps/historical/ http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/education/data/cps/histor... seem to disagree with your intuition
- copsarebastards 12y agomore people != everyone I'm making a bit of a pedantic point, I realize. But I think that just because more people are getting educated doesn't mean we can ignore the people who are still consistently excluded from higher education.