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Educational gaps threaten economic mobility

Posted February 20th, 2008 by Tara Murray in Education, Poverty and Income Inequality, Race & Ethnicity

Widening gaps in educational attainment threaten economic mobility for the poor, according to a report from the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Economic Mobility Project (Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog).

See also: New York Times article,  Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America (Economic Mobility Project report)

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