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"Over half of the people on disability are either anxious or their back hurts - join the club. Who doesn't get a little anxious for work and their back hurts? " In this article by the Washington Post, disability insurance is scrutinized to determine how people are abusing and misusing it. Ever since the "baby boomers" hit their 40s and 50s, the cost of disability insurance peaked over the monetary income funding the program. Is it worth it to keep paying "injured" workers?

"The Richmond and Hanover County school systems have sharply different racial demographics, and dropout percentages that differ as well in their reports to the Department of Education." This articles talks about the reasons how Henrico has different education from others and that results in more dropout rates.

This article explains how "gifted" students or students who live near fluent areas have better opportunities. For instance Deep Run's A.P. exam showed 1 in every 1.6 students passed there Exam while as Highland Spring's A. P. exam showed 1 in every 45.3 students passed there exams. Overall kids living in the west end are probably going to do better than kids living in the east end.

"Local public high school students saved more than $9 million in college tuition last year by passing Advanced Placement exams before graduating, but the results were heavily influenced by students in a regional school for the academically gifted and in five largely affluent suburban schools. In the city of Richmond, students at three of the eight high schools didn't record a single passing score, and students in the city as a whole earned only about $150,000 worth of tuition, based on the cost of a three-credit class at Virginia Commonwealth University. Across the city and in the counties of Chesterfield, Hanover and Henrico, students at schools in older areas and with predominantly minority enrollments took fewer AP classes and performed at lower levels on the exams." This article talked about how students living in older areas received minority enrollments and also performed low on the tests. This proves that there is opportunity gap because of the old area influencing the students (Reid).

""We need our kids to not just take these classes, but to pass the exams. It proves again the importance of making sure we have effective teachers in every classroom."" This article shows the different disparities in test scores in Henrico County and the things the county did to try to help the range of test scores.