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A Troubling College Divide Between Rich & Poor

HigherEd Industry News February 13, 2015 - CBS Moneywatch

During the last 45 years, the college-completion gap between the richest and poorest young Americans rose from a 34-percentage-point difference to 46 percentage points.

A recent study by the Pell Institute for the Study of Higher Education captured this reality and revealed that most low-income students never graduate from college, unlike their affluent classmates.