America's Great Working-Class Colleges - by David Leonhardt

"A large new research project — analyzing millions of anonymous tax records — found that many colleges are boosting large numbers of low-income students into the middle class and beyond.  And they’re not Ivy League colleges. They’re public colleges, like CUNY, Cal State and several University of Texas campuses. For every poor student that the Ivy League launches into the middle class, CUNY alone launches more than six.  The most alarming part of the story is that state governments have in recent years been cutting the budgets of these engines of upward mobility. It’s hard to imagine a policy less in keeping with American values — or more damaging to the long-term health of the economy. READ THIS  WONDERFUL COLUMN!"