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Race policies in colleges have nothing to do with Black or Hispanic poverty, to any reasonable approximation. The people who are affected, one way or the other, are squarely middle-class.


Pew research suggests a rising number of students are from impoverished backgrounds (around 20% of undergrads who are still dependents, and 42% of undergrads who are independent). https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/05/22/a-risin...

This may be expected given policies of the previous several decades seeking out minority students and the correlation in the US between minority membership and poverty (though there's certainly correlation / causation concerns with an assumption like that).




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