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The college-going gap between Black and white Americans was always bad. It’s getting worse

The Hechinger Report

But the outcomes aren’t showing that,” said Justin Nalley, senior policy analyst at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Black think tank. This economic disparity means that going to college, for Black Americans, is much more likely to require going into debt — and larger amounts of it. It’s just the way society is.”