The Reproduction of Privilege
Thomas B. Edsall,
New York Times,
Mar 14, 2012
It's ironic. Efforts to increase access to education opened the doors just wide enough to create a significant barrier to lower income people trying to get ahead. Now that most jobs require a degree, a degree has become a virtual necessity. But for the most part, it is the wealthier sector of society that obtains a degree. The university has become (as it always was, perhaps) a mechanism for preserving the status and position of the rich. Yes, the poor can still get a degree - and 8.3 percent of them do. But this pales in comparison to the 82.4 percent of the wealthy who access a university education.
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