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The main problem with vouchers is at the end of the day, they’re just going to reinforce inequality issues. There’s a reason people moved to the suburbs, right: in order to increase the aggregate advantage of THEIR capital and turn it into HUMAN capital for their children.

Vouchers, at the end of the day, will just make it easier to enforce class structure without having to move. For people like Megan, who want to live in cities, its great. And maybe there’s some nostalga for the pre-Brown days (in a purely non-racist ways). Maybe it would be better for poor people if richer people would be willing to live vaguely amongst them, since they won’t have to share schools with them. Who knows. But while our education system is still unequal

For more:

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=878

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/vogel190805.html

(anti-voucher)

http://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/macdyn/v9y2005i01p98-121_04.html

(pro-voucher, but admitting the income inequality effect)