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How College Education Divided America

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Shortly after pandemic-era travel restrictions eased, I flew to Washington, D.C., for a meeting with leaders from left-leaning foundations.

The topic was close to my heart: combating inequality and constructing a new narrative about reversing huge and widening income disparities.

I expected the focus to be on the jarring increase in earnings inequality over the last four decades, led by the declining wages of workers, and especially men, without college degrees.To my surprise, nobody seemed to comment on the stagnation and decline in the wages of non-college workers.

Nor was there any discussion of how inequality between residents of small cities and large metropolitan areas had surged.

Instead, commentator after commentator talked about gender inequality, racial inequality, and inequality…

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