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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

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We were already fighting twice as hard to get where everybody else was,” said Yessica Flores, a 21-year-old psychology and sociology major at Virginia Commonwealth University. “We We have to fight three times as hard now.”. College enrollments have fallen. That will be much harder now.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

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Thompson, whose father “was an illiterate coal miner” and mother only completed eighth grade, but who earned a doctorate in sociology, said raising educational levels is critical to prosperity in the state. In Kentucky, the target is 60 percent by 2030 (“60×30”). Many states have embraced education attainment goals.

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Is California saving higher education?

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Today, Mora is an associate professor of sociology at Berkeley and a mentor to other first-generation college students. Lumina is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report, which co-produced this story.).

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