Since 1979, wages for the top 1 percent in the United States have grown nine times faster than wages for the bottom 90 percent. That’s not a tale of the well-educated doing better than the less-well-educated. It’s about the super-rich outearning everyone else—including college graduates, who haven’t gotten a raise in over a decade.

So what doesn’t seem to work is a focus on improving education. Even if we could dramatically increase the number of college graduates, or greatly expand access to high-quality education, the United States would likely remain an extremely unequal place, a country where even college grads are being left behind.

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自1979年以來，美國頂尖1%的人的收入增速要比底層90%的人快9倍。這并不是說受過良好教育的人比沒有受過良好教育的人更出色，而是超級富豪的收入超過其他所有人——包括那些在10多年里從沒漲過薪水的大學畢業生。

所以強調改進教育似乎并不奏效。即使我們可以大幅度增加大學畢業生的數量，或者大大拓寬獲得高質量教育的途徑，美國可能仍將是一個極度不平等的地方，一個連大學畢業生都被拋在后面的國家。

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