> Give high-quality education, childcare, tax credits, and don't raise the minimum wage.
Wow, these authors just don't get it. Quality of life for the lower and lower-middle class has been declining for decades. Worker leverage is at an all-time low. Most households require two wage-earners to live any sort of quality of life. Jobs are becoming more and more centralized to a handful of urban centers around the country, and jobs that don't require high levels of education have mostly been outsourced. Socioeconomic mobility is declining massively.
Then the authors imply that instead of raising wages or shifting the worker/employer leverage balance, they just want to shuffle more of them through school? Why not create an economic environment where businesses have an incentive to give an increasing quality of life for its workers over time? Instead of shuffling more workers through a broken education system, why not train & promote internally? Why not promote & create jobs that don't require decades of education and experience to live a comfortable life? Why not do something about our anti-trust and global trade laws so that more areas than big urban centers experience economic growth?
Uneducated people in our country shouldn't be pushed out of our economy.
Edit: To those downvoting me, could you please explain why? If I'm wrong in any way, I'd love to learn from your view on it.