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Race in Richmond: Inequalities persist in schools - Richmond.com: News - 8 views

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    "As out-of-zone students who attend TJ under the system's open-enrollment policy, Gray and his brothers are required to find their own transportation to school. At 6:38 a.m., they catch a city bus that takes them to Fourth and Broad streets, where they await another bus that usually gets them to school late." The school should find a way to put them on a school bus. TJ already houses an IB program, so why couldn't they just adjust a bus route to include the Gray brothers. Also, the city bus could pose a safety issue, as well as the fact that they are arriving at school late, so this is taking valuable education time away from them.
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Income Inequality News - The New York Times - 2 views

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    "Oxfam releases study finding that world's richest 1 percent are set to control more than half of all global wealth by 2016, marking watershed in rise of income inequality; report, which comes days before annual World Economic Forum meeting, indicates that divide is starker than at any point in recent history. " This article shows that the gap between the classes, and ultimately income, is growing incredibly fast. This shows that something needs to be done to at least slow this down. I don't think that we should eliminate the classes, just decrease the gap.
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