The Hamilton Project has released this short, readable, but data-packed report on growing income and wealth inequalities and growing achievement gaps between low and high income children.
They cannot provide data that more high-wage jobs would be created to employ the newly educated should we find the political will to close those educational gaps, but reports like this are a good way to broaden understanding of how growing inequalities are ending the American Dream of opportunity for all through success in school.
Education and Class 