Racial Income Gap
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How Inequality in the US Follows Racial Lines
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“There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America—there’s the United States of America.” – Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address The 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address, which helped launch then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama into the spotlight, was…
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How Does Compulsory Math Education Close the Racial Income Gap?
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STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education has been a national imperative for decades. More recent administrations have prioritized STEM in schools due to the rising importance of mathematical skills in the labor market. The American Competitive Initiative, signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2006, committed a…