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Income Based Affirmative Action

Posted on August 27, 2008

Robert Reich says it's time to link affirmative action programs to family income:Robert Reich, Marketplace: Here's an idea Democrats probably won't endorse but should: Affirmative action based on family income.The latest data from the Census tell us that inequality keeps growing. ...At the same time, it's become harder for lower-income people to move upward. With wider inequality, the distance poor kids -- whatever their color -- has to climb to reach the upper-middle class is much longer. And the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs has removed many rungs in the middle of the income ladder,...

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