During the presidential primaries, Senator Bernie Sanders called for free college education for all as a means for reducing income inequality. In an article posted on August 3 on Politico, author Danny Vinik uses recent research from the Institute's Timothy Bartik and Brad Hershbein to show that free college for all may actually widen the income gap instead of reducing it.
Read "The trouble with free college for all," by Danny Vinik
Read "Degrees of Poverty: Family Income Background and the College Earnings Premium," by Timothy Bartik and Brad Hershbein