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... for generations, and we need to break that cycle. APRIL BROWN: Residents of Baltimore's Cherry Hill neighborhood face high levels of violence and low graduation rates in school, but there's an effort under way to break the cycle. HOWARD JOHNSON, Mentor, Higher Achievement: I came from this community ...
... in mass incarceration, which affects their families and their earning for a lifetime. A new report by Demos and Brandeis University finds that equalizing college graduation rates between whites and people of color would close the wealth gap by 1 percent for blacks and 3 percent for Latinos. A recent ...
... on ending multigenerational poverty in North Minneapolis. SONDRA SAMUELS: It's a tale of two cities. It really is. We have the highest racial unemployment gap in the entire country between people of color and white people in this state. JUDY WOODRUFF: While Minneapolis-Saint Paul may be a top ...
INDIANAPOLIS — President Barack Obama's proposal to make two years of college free will get a key test Friday as he travels to Indiana, a red state where making college more affordable and increasing graduation rates are squarely in the spotlight. Obama's plan is part of a proposed budget ...
... have a college degree. And, today, just over 40 percent have one. The second dynamic I think this addresses is that we have got a gap between rich and poor that's growing in our country. And we still have lots of Americans, low-income Americans, African-American folks in ...
... of my growing up ... kids in my class would have new jackets, new coats, and I would get hand-me-downs," Sanders said. After his graduation from the University of Chicago, Sanders came to Vermont in the 1960s as part of the counterculture, back-to-the-land movement that turned ...
... corporations create boards with no less than 40 percent of each gender represented, the number and quality of women board directors rose and the pay gap vis-a-vis male board members shrank. MORE FROM MAKING SEN$E Why women still aren’t making it into the boardroom But 10 years ...
Philadelphia’s public school system is suffering a severe budget crisis, leaving classrooms packed, faculty understaffed and the district in debt. Special correspondent John Tulenko of Learning Matters examines what led to the shortage of funds and what lawmakers are doing to fix it.
College-bound students are learning which schools will offer them admission; now they just have to figure out which schools they can afford. Hari Sreenivasan takes a look at the maze of college financial aid and what students and parents need to know to navigate it.
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