>With good education, even just K-8, people will have the ability and resources to understand that they can vote with their feet and move to where the economic opportunities are.
With good education you might understand that there is a non-insignificant relocation cost that not everyone can afford.
Even if it's necessary, how do you manage to move if you have zero dollars, empty tank (or no car), constant calls from collectors (if your phone is hooked up)...
The point is, if you aren't going to do BIG, at least revive the 'new deal'. Unemployment shouldn't mean you don't have a job, it should mean you have the default job; sure that job might be underemployment and you might be underpaid relative to your skills, but you still have a job, a way of actually making the ends meet. Let's also finish the job of providing the other basic rights that a society expecting people to live in a city instead of carving their own village out of the wilderness should. Basic food, shelter, security, and health/death care.
With good education you might understand that there is a non-insignificant relocation cost that not everyone can afford.