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Affirmative Action is About More Than Acceptance Letters
Notes from America with Kai Wright
The Cost of Community Colleges
The price to attend college has risen astronomically. Many community colleges that don't have direct pathways to four year institutions combined with labor market discrimination of the sort, you know, recent economists estimate whiteness is worth like three or four years of education in terms of job markets. There are studies that suggest that black people with high school diploma are less likely to be called back for a job than white people with criminal records who dropped out of high school. So it is a much more difficult road to travel in 2023 to find an affordable college education by sort of doing a mixture of night courses and community college courses.
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