Race And Family Education Essay

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Focus Question: Do family income and race affect female and male college education in the United States?

Working Thesis: Family income and race affects females and males college education in the Unites Sates, resulting in race and income to be a social problem with education in the world today. Although opponents might disagree and say, that a person’s neighborhood does not have an affect their education attainment, family income and race plays a large part in how far a person’s education can go.

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