Inequality
Everybody has jumped on the inequality bandwagon. First it was liberals who showed concern about the issue while conservatives dismissed it – with conservatives saying either that inequality was a good thing, a sign that we have more opportunity and that the best folks can rise, or that rising inequality was a myth. But as the politics of the issue changed, conservative politicians switched gears, accepting that there is at least some opportunity gap. But what to do about it? Marco Rubio made a suggestion that we provide training for better jobs. His idea is really just a sketch (and impossible to implement). He gave an example of a poor woman working as a receptionist in a medical office, he noted her low wage and said that what she really needed was to become (for example) an ultrasound tech. So she needs training. But in his mind, the training will come (on the cheap) from a mix of on line courses that are free, from credits for existing knowledge (gained