Even if IQ tests only measure the quality of one's education and upbringing - which I do not believe - they measure competence. Being hired for a job is an achievement, not an entitlement.
Actually, it should be an entitlement. Since you claim to be an old-school New Deal Democrat, maybe you should look up FDR's 1944 State of the Union address.
Second Bill of Rights - Wikipedia
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Maybe you would be happier with the Republicans.
Someone who had trouble doing her homework because her mother's boy friends sexually abused her, and who went to crummy public schools is not likely to make a good employee. Employers have no obligation to compensate her for bad things others did to her in the past.
Except whose fault is it that her public school was "Crummy"? Could it be rich people who refused to pay their fair share in taxes? White people who didn't care about Public schools because they were sending their kids to nice suburban or parochial schools? Seems we DO have an obligation here.