The Other Affirmative Action, Ctd

Yglesias is open to class-based affirmative action. But he finds the debate mostly a distraction:

If you were to start writing a list of the problems faced by poorpeople in the United States of America you'd run out of paper longbefore you got to elite university admissions policies. Poor kids startschool already behind their higher-SES peers. They are thendisproportionately concentrated in low-performing schools featuringineffective teachers. And when they're in school is the lucky...