The Washington Post published an article on Monday titled “These academics say Bernie Sanders’s college plan will be a boon for African American students. Will it?” One of the academics in question is Darrick Hamilton, Heilbroner Center faculty affiliate and Professor of Economics and Urban Policy at the New School. “A program like Sanders’s would ensure that blacks are less susceptible to getting caught up in a debt trap,” Hamilton told the Post, when asked about the paper he co-authored with William Darity Jr. (Duke) and Mark Paul (UMass Amherst) .
Read the full article here. The paper by Hamilton, Darity and Paul is available here.