Monday, July 9, 2012

Has Higher Education Become an Engine of Inequality?

July 2, 2012
A Chronicle Forum
Inequality is growing in the United States, and social mobility is slowing. A study by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that 62 percent of Americans raised in the top one-fifth of the income scale stay in the top two-fifths; 65 percent born in the bottom fifth stay in the bottom two-fifths.
Full story: http://chronicle.com/article/Has-Higher-Education-Become-an/132619/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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