Guest column: Good education has never been so important

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Guest column: Good education has never been so important

One recent afternoon I was talking to a colleague on the phone and I said, "I just had a revelation - there's no money in education!"...Consider the following from the Alliance for Excellent Education (2007): The United States could save between $7.9 and $10.8 billion annually by improving educational attainment among all recipients of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, food stamps and housing assistance (Garfinkel et al., 2005).