"Inequality, Too Much of a Good Thing" (by Alan Kreuger, Obama's nominee for econ adviser)

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I recently read this essay that Alan Kreuger, whom President Obama nominated to lead his Council of Economic Advisers, presented at a 2002 Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy. It's called "Inequality, Too Much of a Good Thing" (PDF, ~50 pages). If you read Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's book The Spirit Level, this Kreuger study has a similar message as it explores the educational inequalities between children in low- and high-income families and advocates for the Head Start and Job Corps programs. This essay was also published in book format.