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Failed Education Policy Has Crippled U.S. Economy

Politics / Education Jan 06, 2012 - 10:33 AM GMT

By: Barry_Elias

Politics

Relative economic immobility in the United States is a function of our failed education policy during the past four decades.

According to the Economic Mobility Project conducted by The Pew Charitable Trust, work force participation by women increased 30 percentage points, from 40 percent to 70 percent, during this time. For 30 years (1974-2004), inflation adjusted income for women in their 30s surged 300 percent.



However, these huge increases in mobility were undermined by the stagnation of men’s incomes and their reduced work-force participation rate.

As a result, average inflation adjusted per capita income declined during this time.

The income distribution became greater with larger, less-mobile portions at both extremes. The Pew study suggests economic mobility doesn't occur for approximately 4 percent of individuals in the lowest quintile and highest quintiles of the population (lowest and highest 20 percent).

Public policy initiatives that favored the wealthy were enacted by a political class immune to the economic realities of their constituents.

As a result, education policy suffered greatly. It has produced a relatively low skilled labor force that is ill-less equipped to meet global demand: a trend that will take decades to correct.

Building our economy begins with building our children before they enter formal schooling.

Helping our children build their blocks may be the key to our future.

By Barry Elias

eliasbarry@aol.com, beb1b2b3@gmail.com

Barry Elias provides economic analysis to Dick Morris, a former political adviser to President Clinton.

He was cited and acknowledged in two recent best-sellers co-authored by Mr. Morris: “Catastrophe” and “2010: Take Back America - a Battle Plan.” Mr. Elias graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Binghamton University with a degree in economics.

He has consulted with various high-profile financial institutions in New York City.

© 2012 Copyright Barry Elias - All Rights Reserved
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Comments

Rick
07 Jan 12, 20:17
"Failed Education Policy----Does It Really Matter?"

"Helping our children build their blocks may be the key to our future".

What's the point? So that they can earn their MA in lawn mowing and burger flipping? Seriously, whether the U.S. labor force is prepared or not to meet today's global challenge is fast becoming irrevelant. Did you not hear that giant sucking sound? It's the sound of still more exploitative mega corporations moving their operations abroad to third world sub-slave wage sweat shops. I can't recall any Economics I that would introduce competitiveness or productivity in something as lopsided as this.


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