from the 2004 \u2018Education Pays\u2019 report here<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nAnd even though the report doesn\u2019t cover it, I would guess that both workers and shoppers at Walmart are on the low end of the education scale, the low end of the health scale, and the high end of the crime scale. Fix the education issue and health, crime, and Walmart will all follow like dominoes.<\/p>\n
Take the \u2018smoking\u2019 statistics (p.19) as a paradigm: in 1940, people in college or with a BA+ had the HIGHEST rate of smoking, but since the 1960s, when we \u2018discovered\u2019 that smoking is bad for you and public health campaigns began massive education projects this group (especially people with BAs) have RADICALLY cut their smoking (from over 40% to under 15%<\/span>) while people without <\/span>a high school diploma went from the least likely to smoke (at ~36%) to the heaviest smokers in 2000 (at over 30%). The public health education had some effect, but the tobacco industry marketing campaigns aimed at them also worked their magic\u2026<\/p>\nWe all pay the costs of health care for those smokers who cannot afford their own and we all (more clearly) pay the costs of higher crime rates amongst the less educated. We can take the neo-conservative route and try to insulate ourselves while pointing fingers at \u2018welfare queens\u2019 and \u2018urban criminals\u2019 as if tougher punishment, and less compassion were the answer. Or we can see through the veil of separateness toward our responsibilities as citizens and at what we can do, individually and as a government, to solve the problems.<\/p>\n
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