摘要：An underlying principle of U.S. social policy is that education
is the key policy lever for addressing poverty. In the
United States and around the world, education is almost
always heavily subsidized by government. The justifications
for government involvement vary, but increasingly rely on
the suggestion that expanded educational investments both
strengthen the national economy and improve the societal
distribution of income and welfare. Education, for example,
had a prominent role in the U.S. “War on Poverty,” with
many of the programs developed in the 1960s continuing
through today. The expansion of public colleges and universities
over the past three decades has also rested on distributional
arguments
