Unleashing opportunity for everyone Every American child deserves access to an education system that endows them with human capital. Yet while federal spending per pupil has skyrocketed, test scores have stagnated—and broken bureaucracies ensure that the most vulnerable kids receive the worst education of all. It is far past time to empower poor families to choose better schools. Mobility requires free enterprise. But a fair start is only the beginning. True mobility requires free enterprise, the economic system that has turned millions of people’s ambitions and innovations into the greatest antipoverty achievement in world history. Only free enterprise equips everyone to earn their own success through hard work and merit and builds prosperity in which everyone can share. Sometimes that requires legitimate government action. Often, it simply means getting the state out of the way. In both cases, it is time for conservatives to be warriors for vulnerable people.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:26:52 +0000
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