Opinion: Why expanding colleges won’t fix income inequality


On the blog of the Chronicle of Higher Education, Richard Vedder, a researcher at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, recently made a strikingly counterintuitive argument against expanding access to college, Mother Jones reports. Using a regression analysis of 2000 census data, he found that states with higher college graduation rates had worse income inequality. He also found that the opposite was true of those states in the 1970s, when the nation’s college graduation rate was much lower on average but wages were more equal…

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