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 [1]. 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…