Does College Level the Playing Field?

Ray Boshara

Review, 2017, vol. 99, issue 1, 5 pages

Abstract: Whether the topic is responding to poverty and inequality or expanding access to opportunity and the American Dream, college is always the central recommendation. Yet research found that a college degree predicted rising levels of family wealth for Whites and Asians but declining levels of wealth for Black and Hispanics. The commissioned papers and discussion here are aimed at understanding the underlying explanations of this troubling finding.

Date: 2017
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