"Today, more people than ever are going to college, yet the nation's overall college graduation rate has remained low. Only 59 percent of students who began as freshmen at a four-year college in the fall of 2006 received their diplomas within six years. Meanwhile, the high school completion rate reached a historic high: In 2012, four out of five students graduated high school within four years. College students who come from low-income backgrounds, such as Kellam, 19, see the least chance of college success. They are less likely to begin college, less likely to finish." This article discusses the ever growing gap in education, with one of the main reasons being income equality. It talks about students with low-income families and the hardships they go through when they attend college. It touches on the amount of students that are able to pay on time and the amount that has to stop college for a while to find funding.

"Income inequality has grown in every state in the US in recent decades, according to a new study published this week by the Economic Policy Institute. The report, entitled The Increasingly Unequal States of America, found that, even though states home to major metropolitan financial centers such as New York, Chicago, and the Bay Area had the highest levels of income inequality, the gap between the rich and the poor has increased in every region of the country." This article talks about the growth of income equality and almost every single state. It talks about the average income and the gap between the rich and poor in numerical terms as well. The article also goes into specifics and looks at the average income in different states.