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The costs required to attend college also contribute to the structural inequality in education. The higher educational system in the United States relies on public funding to support the universities. However, even with the public funding, policymakers have voiced their desire to have universities become less dependent on government funding and to compete for other sources of funding[1].The result of this could sway many students from low-income backgrounds from attending higher institutions due to the inability of paying to attend. In a 2013 study by the National Center for Educational Statistics, only 49% of students from low-income families that graduated from high school immediately enrolled into college[2]. In comparison, students from high-income families had an 80%immediate college enrollment rate[2]. Furthermore, in another 2013 report, over 58% of low-income families were minorities[3]. In the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supported survey, researchers discovered that 6 in 10 students that dropped out was due to the inability to pay for the cost of attending themselves and without help from their families[4].
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- ^ Davies, Scott; Zarifa, David. "The stratification of universities: Structural inequality in Canada and the United States". Research in Social Stratification and Mobility – via Elsevier Science Direct.
- ^ a b Kena, G., Musu-Gillette, L., Robinson, J., Wang, X., Rathbun, A., Zhang, J., Wilkinson-Flicker, S., Barmer, A., and Dunlop Velez, E. (2015). The Condition of Education 2015 (NCES 2015-144). U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Washington, DC. Retrieved November 16, 2016 from http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/
- ^ Povich, Deborah; Roberts, Brandon; Mathers, Mark. "Low-Income Working Families: The Racial/Ethnic Divide" (PDF). Retrieved November 16, 2016.
- ^ Johnson, J. & Rochkind, J., with Ott, A., & Dupont, S. (2009) “With Their Whole Loves Ahead of Them.” Public Agenda, Prepared with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved at: http://www.publicagenda.org/files/theirwholelivesaheadofthem.pdf