Reply #2: There's no doubt that family income correlates most strongly with lifetime earnings and education.

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A good public education, however, is shown to raise kids out of poverty, particularly children of first-generation immigrants. Such a quality public education should be available to all, not just in enclaves such as affluent suburbs in New York, California, and Virginia.

A refocusing of the political agenda toward increased national funding of schools is essential, but that runs 180 degrees counter to the austerity and privatization agenda of the 1 percenters, the Charter School industry, and the paleo-GOP.