African Americans are faring worst in the Great Recession.
New research by Yale sociologist Hannah Brueckner and Yale graduate student Natalie Nitsche suggests that highly educated black women are having the hardest time of all in the quest to “have it all”— career success and family life. Basically, fewer black women with graduate degrees are getting married and starting families. The gap between highly [...]
Colleges Move Toward Encouraging Alternative Career Paths Walking in mid-town on a steamy Friday afternoon, the sidewalk transformed into an intricate, multiple-lane highway of speed-racing pedestrians skirting around wide-eyed, loitering tourists with irritated grunts, I took a moment to observe the business-clad walkers in the fast-lane. There were penguin-suit strutters with cufflinks gleaming, swaying khaki-legs [...]
As many of you may have noticed and perhaps judged us for (it’s okay, we understand), The Lattice Group is directly aimed at college students and college-educated young professionals. This group – we, probably you – is privileged. We have expensive degrees and support systems and social networks and, most luxuriously of all, options. We [...]
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