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The Role Student Debt Plays in the Racial Wealth Gap

What explains the large disparity in Black and white student debt, and what can we do to address the student debt crisis and close the racial wealth gap?

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Financial System

These States Are Trying to Level the Field for Disadvantaged Students

How would the trajectories of children’s lives change if they knew that their state, their community and their parents were investing in their future success for as long as they could remember?

A high school graduate who saved for college with the help of FUEL Education, now called Inversant.
Financial System

In Which a Skeptic Is Won Over to Child Savings Accounts

While I am a firm believer in equal access to higher education for all, it’s over-emphasized in our individualistic culture as a solution to society’s woes.

Young students wearing red shirts laugh as they participate in a college-bound program in Indiana.
Financial System

College Bound: A Look at Children’s Savings Accounts

Children’s savings accounts for higher education, even those that have accumulated only small amounts of money, can change expectations for low-income students and they might also provide a vehicle for larger wealth transfers.

Equity

A New Way to Do Affirmative Action?

I was prepared to dislike Sheryll Cashin’s Place, Not Race, just based on the title. However, the author largely won me over.

Community Development Field

Do One Thing and Do It Well

Changes in policy, economics, and needs force the community development field to move forward to meet today’s challenges.