Elite Colleges Perpetuating Educational Segregation and Income Inequality

ACORN Citizen Wealth Community Organizing Education Financial Justice Ideas and Issues

Houston           All of the evidence on income stratification in higher education indicates that elite colleges and universities continue to play a major role in accelerating inequality as cherished ghettos of the rich and guardians of society’s inside track.  It should come as no surprise that they are undoubtedly the least able to heal themselves and …

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Hilary Running or Not, Low Income College Students, Tax Numbers, & Sequestered Housing Vouchers

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care National Politics

New Orleans   Rain chased us all the way through southern Arkansas and into northern Louisiana until Tallulah, a small town at the gateway to I-20 named after the a girlfriend of a railroad engineer that may not have made it to marriage, but achieved some permanence as a way station along the tracks.  Waking up in …

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