The College-Graduation Problem All States Have
Across the country, black and Latino adults are far less likely to hold a college degree than white adults. Can better support for colleges that serve a high percentage of minorities change that?
Near the beginning of his presidency, Barack Obama gave a speech to Congress that laid out a goal for the future: “By 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.” At the time, America was 12th, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Almost a decade later, and with 2020 not far off, where do U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Still, that , according to the latest available data.
