Education – Page 4 – Equity Indicators

Upward mobility and education are inextricably linked. Education is one of the few vehicles poor kids have to improve their circumstances in life. But research from our NYC Equality Indicators study finds kids living in bottom 20% median income Census…

A New Way of Looking At Inequality in NYC

October 15, 2015 Michael Jacobson

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I have called NYC home for over 60 years. Living and working as a government official and City University of New York (CUNY) Sociology Professor in it, I never fail to find something new, remarkable, or strange about it every…

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Income & School Quality: Poor Kids Losing Out

A New Way of Looking At Inequality in NYC