Rising to the
Challenge: Reducing Childhood Poverty and Improving Childhood Outcomes
in Kansas town hall meetings, sponsored by Governor Brownback, will be held Monday,
Nov. 14 in Kansas City; Wednesday, Nov. 16 in Wichita; and Thursday Nov.
17 in Garden City.
Occupy Wall Street is shining a useful
spotlight on one of America's central challenges, the inequality that
leaves
the richest 1 percent of Americans with a greater net worth than the
entire
bottom 90 percent.
Most of the proposed remedies involve
changes in taxes and regulations, and they would help. But the single
step that
would do the most to reduce inequality has nothing to do with finance at
all.
It's an expansion of early childhood education.