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istara  ·  3904 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: America's Class System Across The Life Cycle

    It starts in the womb. It never lets up.

That made me want to cry.

    Fifty-four percent of rich kids get a four-year degree by age 25, six times the percentage of poor kids who do so.

That staggered me - nearly half of rich/high achieving Americans drop out/fail some years?





user-inactivated  ·  3904 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's out of the whole population so a good chunk of those are simply not enrolled

madvoid  ·  3904 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would guess that the other 46% think that they don't actually need to get a degree to do okay in life.