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In an op-ed, Dean Peter Henry explains how better access to education can close America's wage gap
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Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "Greater education would do three things to mitigate income inequality. First, as more people move out of the low-skill pool into the high-skill pool, the number of people earning higher incomes would increase in absolute terms. Second, augmenting the supply of high-skilled workers would slow the rapid rate of increase in their wages. And third, on the other end of the spectrum, the more education drives people into higher-skilled, higher-wage areas, the more those who enter or remain in low-skill sections of the job market stand to gain."
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