Race and Education

Rising College Costs Push Minority Students To Alternative Routes

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Manny Otiko

As the price of college skyrockets, and the American economy struggles, the option of college is increasingly becoming a pipe dream for many ethnic minorities.

According to a recent Huffington Post story, "About 40 percent of students left school with debt averaging about $22,000. But students from families earning between $40,000 and $59,000 were saddled with $6,000 more on average than peers from families earning less than $40,000. Students from the next tier – family income between $60,000 and $99,000 – had $4,000 more in debt than their lowest-income peers."

Women’s Rights Activist & Only Female Congressional Medal Of Honor Winner

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Russell Roberts

Mary Edwards Walker had the bad luck to be born a century too early. Throughout her lifetime, she received severe criticism for practicing medicine and fighting to achieve equal rights for women, things we take for granted today.    

Born on November 26, 1832, on the family farm in Oswego, New York, Walker’s father Alvah, a freethinker and reformist, had a profound influence on her, particularly concerning the wearing of women’s clothing. Alvah believed that the restrictive women’s fashions of the day – petticoats, corsets, etc. - inhibited their movements and capabilities. 

Baby Boomers Support Their Children

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Cindy Ferraino

As the baby boomer generation, and this means parents ranging in age from 48-66 years old, including all races & ethnicities, begin inching their way toward retirement through a turbulent job market, their plans to bask in the glow of retirement are now clouded with the recent upswing in welcoming adult children back home. The adult children involved in this upswing are “the boomerang” generation.

Women Of Color Emerge As Key Demographic

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D. A. Barber

With Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, and Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council Cecilia Muñoz, on hand in Washington D.C., the Center for American Progress (CAP) released a study on August 8, 2012, that “takes a look into Latinos’ successes and challenges as one of the fastest-growing populations in the country.”

That report comes on the heals of CAP's Progress 2050 report released July 17, 2012, entitled, “The State of Women of Color in the United States.”

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