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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

The disparity serves as an extreme example of similar trends across the United States, where the children of higher-income families go to better colleges than those from lower-income ones. A third of high school students quit before they finish , more than double the current proportion in the rest of the United States , the U.S.

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