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Opinion: Does Affirmative Action Help College Students?

All across the country, high school seniors are gearing up to apply to college. Many of them assume that the best thing they can do to ensure a bright future is to attend the most prestigious school that has accepted them -- even if their race, athletic prowess or rich uncle helped them get in. But according to a December...

Census Finds Record Gap Between Rich and Poor

WASHINGTON (Sept. 28) -- The income gap between the richest and poorest Americans grew last year to its widest amount on record as young adults and children in particular struggled to stay afloat in the recession. The top-earning 20 percent of Americans - those making more than $100,000 each year - received 49.4 percent...

Opinion: There's More to the Pay Gap Story

(Sept. 1) -- The "pay gap" between men and women is much in the news these days. Ninety years after women gained the right to vote, a typical story reports, we still earn 77 cents on the dollar. But what if there's more to the story? Some new data show that the question of why people earn more or less is quite nuanced. In...

Opinion: Sen. Webb Uses Privilege to Play Racial Politics

(July 27) -- It's hard not to automatically dismiss an op-ed titled "Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege" written by a man who has profited, whether he acknowledges it or not, from precisely that privilege. In his piece for the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., claims that government-orchestrated diversity...

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05/31/12 Top court backs affirmative action, including quotas,... Source: South Florida Times - Fort Lauderdale FL Brazil's top court has backed sweeping affirmative action programs used in more than 1,000 universities across the nation which has more blacks than any other country outside Africa yet where a severe gap in education equality between races persists.
05/31/12 Mining boss slams jobless who won't go west Source: The Age - Melbourne VIC - Australia FLY IN, fly out mining workers are making family sacrifices and paying high tax rates while some unemployed Australians are ignoring the opportunities of the mining boom, the Atlas Iron boss, David Flanagan, believes.
05/31/12 Canada and Canadian Community Colleges Building... Source: Russel Metals Inc OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - May 31, 2012) - Today, the Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, announced Canada's support for a new Education for Employment (EFE) initiative to meet the growing demand for a skilled workforce in developing countries.
05/31/12 Blacks and Whites Favor Same-Race Neighborhoods Source: Live Science Multiethnic neighborhoods are on the rise in America, but new research suggests that when most whites or blacks move, they find another neighborhood where most of the people share their race.
05/31/12 Is Diversity for White People? Source: Prawfs Blawg University of Texas has led to a great deal of speculation about the future of affirmative action.