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Mikhail Zinshteyn, Michaella Huck & Julie Watts CalMatters “A lot of people would tell you to get to college,” said Cal State Northridge senior Christopher Carter, “but the hardest part is staying in college.” Carter speaks from experience: He arrived at Cal State as a business major, and discovered...
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El COVID-19 ha tocado casi todas las facetas de la vida, y un nuevo informe del Centro de Prestamos Responsables dice que las mujeres que pagan prestamos estudiantiles se han visto especialmente afectadas. El informe dice en particular que la pandemia exacerbo la inestabilidad financiera de las mujeres de color, reduciendo...
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COVID-19 has touched just about every facet of life, and a new report from the Center for Responsible Lending says women repaying student loans have been hit especially hard. The report says in particular, the pandemic exacerbated the financial instability of women of color, reducing their ability to repay...
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Al cierre del primer Simposio Juneteenth de la Universidad Estatal de California el mes pasado, el máximo ejecutivo del sistema presentó una agenda para mejorar la experiencia de los estudiantes de raza negra en el sistema universitario público más grande del país. ¿El primer elemento en la lista de...
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At the close of the first-ever California State University Juneteenth Symposium last month, the system’s top executive laid out an agenda for improving the Black student experience at the nation’s largest public university system. The first item on Interim Chancellor Jolene Koester’s list? “We need to disaggregate the data,”...
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While homeownership remains a challenge for people of color in California, a new report argues the state’s landmark law limiting property tax increases keeps those who do achieve it from equally reaping the benefits. Under Proposition 13, a report released recently say white homeowners get annual property tax breaks that are...
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El ser propietario de una vivienda se ha considerado durante mucho tiempo un camino hacia la clase media. Pero solo el 17% de los hogares de personas de raza negra y latinos podían pagar una casa de precio medio en California el año pasado, menos que durante los dos...
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Homeownership has long been considered a path to the middle class. But just 17% of Black and Latino households could afford a median-priced home in California last year, down from the prior two years, according to a new report. All Californians faced a high-barrier market in 2021. Only 26% of...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California’s most selective public colleges still admit far too few black and Latino students, according to a new report which was released on November 13, 2018. Researchers at the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce found that six out of 100...