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Transcripts for MSNBC The Cross Connection With Tiffany Cross 20210904 15:44:00

Doctor, i know these circumstances are not unique to you. you see this kind of thing all the time, particularly with black and brown students. what do you think? do colleges and universities bear any responsibility to make it easier for students? where does the solution lie? i think there are lots of solutions that address the issues. we have to be realistic, college isn t affordable in this country and part of the reason is the racial wealth gap. we leave students of color with no margin for error. the average white house hold in this country has $156,000 worth of wealth, compared to $3,800 for a black household and $7,000 for latino households. that s why students have to work full-time to afford college. so if we want to address this, there are policy solutions we could turn to. we should create a federal/state partnership to ensure that students can go to college debt-free and we need to invest in student completion and ....

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