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Shaping Goals

The TRIO website describes its services and scholarships as being for the disadvantaged. First-generation students, maybe, or those lacking enough money to pursue a four-year education. But it’s likely the recipients end up thinking the opposite; that they’ve been given an edge, a leg up.

NH Business Review: New Hampshire’s school-funding inequities spelled out in new analysis

The Carsey School of Public Policy's School Funding Study team and the NH Commission to Study School Funding recently reviewed a report from the American Institutes for Research that confirmed that New Hampshire’s system for funding public schools fosters inequitable educational opportunity and achievement among students while placing inequitable burdens on taxpayers.

NH Business Review: UNH study finds inequity in pandemic-related job loss and recovery

According to the study conducted by Rogelio Sáenz, a policy fellow at the Carsey School and professor of demography at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and Corey Sparks, associate professor of demography at the University of Texas at San Antonio, people of color and women have experienced higher unemployment than whites and men during the Covid-19 pandemic, and women of color and Latina immigrants have the highest jobless rates.