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...Ahmed was a high school senior in Fargo, N.D., when she first heard about QuestBridge, a college matching program for low-income students.A 4.0 student, she was still unsure how she would afford college. She said her family’s financial situation was “definitely not well-off or stable.”The program’s early application deadline meant a scramble to research as many schools as quickly as possible. “Being from the midwest, I don’t know too much about Ivy League schools,” she said.Now...
Reverberations from the implosion of the U.S. debt bubble can be felt a long way from Wall Street. Gaurav Rege was a hotel manager near Rishikesh, an Indian hill station at the foot of the Himalayas. He and his new wife are young, educated, well-off - and worried. A member of India's growing consumer culture, Rege, 30, took out an adjustable-rate loan two years ago to buy an investment property near Bangalore, but his monthly payments have jumped because of tighter credit and rising interest rates. He has abandoned plans to get an M.B.A. because student loans...
...have found some evidence of a growing ‘class gap’ in civic involvement in America, with younger Americans from well-off backgrounds increasing their participation in politics and society, while kids from the wrong side of the tracks are increasingly dropping out,” wrote Putnam, who founded the Seminar in 1995, in an e-mailed statement. “This generous new grant will help us better understand the dimensions of this problem, and to explore its origins...
...Barack Obama and the Democrats, it all comes down to this: Should Obama try to win by running up big numbers among the young liberals and well-off independents who cheer his hip style of designer politics? Or should he concentrate on recapturing the older and decidedly unhip working-class voters who rejected him in droves during the primaries...
...urban kids, according to the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health. The poorest states of the South and Appalachia--Arkansas, West Virginia, Mississippi and Kentucky--have the heaviest children. Adult obesity levels triple when you cross north of 96th Street in Manhattan, leaving the mostly white and well-off Upper East Side for the predominantly minority, poorer neighborhood of Spanish Harlem. Even in trim Colorado, there are obesity hot zones...