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Education level is more likey to be an effect than a cause. Those from not poor families have better education levels. Education level is influenced by ethnicity, age, gender and host of other factors (mental health, assertiveness, "drive", etc).

I'd believe those other factors have huge influence on employment. It's not so simple as get education -> job & life of ease.




It's not so simple as get education -> job & life of ease.

Of course it's not that simple, but it's definitely important to realize that unemployment numbers are not the same for everyone. Recognizing that a lot of the unemployment falls within groups that have little education means that a tech startup is going to do very little to address unemployment. It's not a bad or good thing with a tech startup, just a fact.

What the numbers show is that we need more jobs that require less education.




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