Middle-class attainment in young adulthood: higher education, student debt, and racial wealth inequality
研究高等教育在极端财富不平等和学生债务背景下如何影响青年时期的种族财富不平等，探讨中产阶级的含义及债务取消政策的作用。
Abstract For whom is higher education an engine of economic mobility? How should we value post-secondary education in a society with extreme wealth inequality and massive student loan debt? This study examines racial wealth inequality in young adulthood, its relationship with higher education, and what it means to be middle class. Also discussed, is how the racialization of student debt is intimately connected with the racial wealth gap and how policies, such as debt cancellation, may disrupt the association between wealth and higher education going forward and provide an opportunity to address the damages this relationship has created.