We can raise the minimum wage, but it isn’t as easy to do things that will rein in the rising inequality in workforce preparation and skill. But one thing is simple to name and simple to implement: allow more high-skill immigrants. This instantly raises the average income, and since hardly any of the newcomers will be coming in as CEOs, it also moves up the median.

Reforming the education system would be nice, but reforms have been defeated in DC and just barely sustained in NYC, where mayor de Blasio was blocked in his effort to shut down charter schools when civil rights activists and community organizers teamed up with the governor of NY to defend the right of the poor to alternatives to failing public schools.