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10 Nov 2008 07:05 am
Spreading The Wealth By Affirmative Action
A left-liberal twofer! Richard Kahlenberg, booster of class-based affirmative action, continues his campaign:
In college admissions—the subject of the ongoing litigation—Obama could back a vigorous program of economic preferences that indirectly addresses our nation’s history of slavery and segregation and the ongoing reality of racial discrimination.
According to a 2004 Century Foundation study by Anthony Carnevale and
Stephen Rose, economic affirmative action—looking at the income,
education and occupation of an applicant’s parents, and the level of
poverty in her high school—will produce almost as much racial diversity
as current race-based affirmative action: the result would be 10
percent black and Hispanic representation at the most selective
colleges and universities compared with 12 percent currently. But
counting other economic factors—such as wealth (net worth)—should boost
racial diversity further. Wealth represents the accumulation of income
over time and thereby more closely reflects the legacy of past
discrimination. Likewise, because homes represent the biggest source of
family wealth for most Americans, giving low wealth students a
preference will also capture ongoing racial discrimination in the
housing market.
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