" President Obama will propose a 10-year budget on Monday that stabilizes the federal deficit but does not seek balance, instead focusing on policies to address income inequality as he adds nearly $6 trillion to the debt." This article focuses on a new budget that President Barack Obama is proposing that will hopefully successfully address income inequality. The article explains how Obama works to fix the inequality, although the debt is still increasing. Throughout the article, the reader gains more information about how Obama plans to raise taxes on the wealthy and increase the incomes of those in the middle class through new spending and tax credits. 

"Under NCLB, it has been possible to see clearly, in numbers, that while white and Asian students might be performing very well, African-American and Latino students, and those with disabilities, were not. This year, 68 percent of white students met the math targets, while only 45 percent of black students did. In other words, the achievement gap is 23 percent." This article gave insight about how the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has affected Virginia in the past few years. This report by the Richmond Times Dispatch portrayed how specific races such as white and Asians do immensely better education wise than African Americans or Hispanics. The article describes how the Virginia plan causes many education barriers and establishes different performance targets for socioeconomic groups.