Prisons are more important than schools : the hypocracy of child-care funding / Marian Wright Edelman ; introduced by Betty Friedan.

Talk by Marian Edelman about the misdirection of funding the the American system. She points to the huge incarceration rate in the United States (with accompanying costs) and that, while taxpayers will spend $80 a-piece for the Savings and Loan bailout, proposed child care legislation could cost only $7. In addition, she points to the…