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the income gap has a lot more "core" causes then just education & parents. Other cores are work ethic, innate IQ, the safety of the neighborhood. To say just fixing schools or parents is overly simplistic.
i guess OWS could advocate for increasing accountability in teacher performance. Its not really the core of their cause, which is corporatism, the excesses of capitalism, & how wealth is able to bend public policy in their favor.
the inequality is not so much the issue as is the issue of the middle class being unable to climb. Free trade & globalism is causing less educated or able labor to compete with slave & child labor. middle class homeowners are stuck in underwater mortgages, unable to sell their homes because banks engineered an overheated real estate market. Taxes, tolls, gas prices, health care prices do nothing but rise, but paychecks do not rise.
Its easy for the 99% to see that the combination of technology & capitalism are tilting the playing fields to the benefit of multinational corporations, & the government should be working to protect workers from the excesses of capitalism, not amplifying them with policies like tax breaks for outsourcing labor, & 15% tax rates on cap gains.
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