Henninger: Obama's class warfare rhetoric

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September 9, 2010

Henninger: Obama's class warfare rhetoric
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Daniel Henninger writes:

What's odd (as always) in an Obama speech is that even as he is launching salvos at an overclass scheming to "cut working class folks like you loose to fend for yourselves," his remarks touch some truths. He identifies exactly what his audience needs to climb out of their rut: "An education that'll give our kids a better life than we had. These are simple ideas. American ideas."

No idea in the literature of economics or social science the past 15 years has received more elevation than the relationship in a modern economy between educational attainment and income. Whose fault is it that public schools in blue-collar districts ill-prepare so many working-class "graduates" to get and hold modern jobs? Did Wall Street ruin the schools, too?

09/9/10 2:32 PM

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