What we can't do is get where we need to go just by giving workers college degrees, which may be no more than tickets to jobs that don't exist or don't pay middle-class wages.

我们不能通过给工人大学文凭来达到目的，因为这种做法相当于给与工人一张通向并不存在或工资水平并不中产阶级的工作的门票。

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It's not just that, at those wages, lettuce pickers would earn more than many cops and firefighters, nurses and teachers.

CNN: Commentary: U.S. workers will pick that lettuce -- for $1,000 a week

And over the 12-month period that just ended in July, the slow growth in wages actually accounted for more than two-thirds of the increase in corporate profits.

CNN: Clinton's November 19, 2007, speech on economic challenges