3. Priority #1 Education

In this episode, a comparison is made between two economic classes (middle class & those living below the poverty level) within the black community. Does Education Play a Major Role in Moving from the Poverty Level to the Middle class?

Key Points:

• The middle and upper-middle-class is growing within the Black Community
  
  
• Education plays a major role in earning capacity
  
  
• Education should be the #1 priority in the Black Community
  
  

Resources
African-American Buying Power Tops $1 Trillion 10/03/2016

Report: Black Students Underrepresented in High-Paying STEM Majors | STEM Solutions | US News

Gene Dattel, Reckoning with Race: America’s Failure (New York: Encounter Books, 2017), 286

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