News About Inequality - September 2007

'The New Affirmative Action'

• The New York Times, September 30, 2007
  In another time, it wouldn't have been too hard to guess where Frances Harris would have ended up going to college. She has managed to do very well in very difficult circumstances, and she is African-American.
  

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'At the Elite Colleges - Dim White Kids'

• The Boston Globe, September 28, 2007
  AUTUMN AND a new academic year are upon us, which means that selective colleges are engaged in the annual ritual of singing the praises of their new freshman classes.

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'The Immigration Charade'

• The New York Review of Books, September 27, 2007
  America's ongoing argument about immigration has followed a fairly consistent sequence for three decades.

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'At Elite Colleges, New Aid for the Middle'

• The Boston Globe, September 27, 2007
  Grants get boost as tuitions rise

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'The Fence to Nowhere'

• The American Prospect, September 24, 2007
  More than ever, we need to craft an accord on migrant workers.

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'The New College Try'

• The New York Times, September 24, 2007
  AMERICANS are committed to the belief that everyone, no matter how humble his origins, has a chance to rise to the top. Our leading colleges and universities play a pivotal role in this national narrative, for they are considered major pathways to power and privilege.

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'Life Sentence'

• The Boston Globe, September 23, 2007
  It's a government program whose impact rivals the New Deal. It pushes whole communities out of society's mainstream. It costs tens of billions of dollars a year. Scholars are just beginning to understand how prison is reshaping the country.

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'Film With Same-Sex Parents Splits School District'

• The New York Times, September 14, 2007
  That was enough to entangle this wealthy suburb of 45,000, about 15 miles east of Philadelphia, in a heated debate among parents and educators. As the issue simmered, the district decided to shelve the film, provoking the threat of a lawsuit by gay rights activists who said the district's refusal to show the video was a violation of state antidiscrimination laws.

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'Not in Whose Backyard?'

• New York Times, September 2, 2007
  Consider this curiosity of United States environmental policy: Countless federal laws have been written to preserve far-flung wilderness that Americans rarely visit (the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, for instance) and endangered species that we scarcely see (from longhorn fairy shrimp to piping plovers). Yet no legislation has been tailored to protect a landscape that is perhaps the most vulnerable: the low-income communities that shelter most of America's polluting facilities.