Basically this article talks about the opportunity gap between poorer and richer students and how little things, like texts to the students and telling parents about their child's performance in school, can help start closing that gap.

A brief over view of a speech Obama gave on income inequality and what it means to him personally. He states several scenarios where government programs helped get him and his family through hard times and comes to the conclusion that although the budget is tight, we shouldn't cut government programs.