can we learn some lessons here?

New York Area Is a Magnet for Graduates - New York Times
The data in in the multimedia frame to the left of the article is compelling--big changes happened in Manhattan over the last 5 years. What's interesting to me is how government costs, crime rates, and the need for social services go down as educational levels go up. In Cleveland, therefore, the unions, the nonprofits, and the government would suffer if we had a better-educated population; they have some truly perverse incentives to keep the educational levels low and people dependent on them.