What Should Be Done Differently to Address Wealth Inequality?

Ray Boshara: Could you each say very briefly, what are the one or two important things we should be doing differently or doing more of early in life that we're not doing now? Lowell and Angelyque and then Bill.

Lowell Ricketts: I would once again plug early childhood intervention programs-- Perry Preschool Project, there's countless--

Ray Boshara: So the education--

Lowell Ricketts: Yes, education interventions. Beefing that up, potentially increasing access to head start programs, universal head start, those would be good starting points.

Ray Boshara: Great.

Angelyque Campbell: I would say in my opinion, and I guess I should have started off with my disclaimer.

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Angelyque Campbell: But I think we have to look at this on a continuum. So you do have early interventions and those are all very important. On the other end of the continuum, you have an aging population, you have others who are in the workforce. Information needs to go out with the same vigor, same equal measure to be able to ensure that folks are preparing for retirement. They're preparing for different other types of economic events in their life. So I would say I'd like to see an equal level of information that would be accessible to all.

William Emmons: I'll go to the primary and secondary education. And I think my top of the wish list would be to break the link between local property taxes and education funding.

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