Tim Ryan: “Focusing on, and I will say, and I will quote, he said, Ben Bernanke said, The best way to narrow the gap between…”

“Focusing on, and I will say, and I will quote, he said, Ben Bernanke said, The best way to narrow the gap between high-income and low-wage workers in the U.S. would be to strengthen education and training programs. That is our call, and that is the mission for us, to make sure that average people have the skills and the tools and the opportunity with the increase in the Pell Grants, with what we already did by cutting student loan interest rates in half for both parent and student loans, cutting that in half and giving thousands of dollars back to those families. Those are the kinds of things that we need to continue to do, and No Child Left Behind and everything else. So we need to make sure that as we reform these systems, we also provide the resources, as we started this, for the local level to make sure they can get the job done.”