Young, educated, and upwardly mobile: What colleges are doing to help low-income students climb the economic ladder

HKS’s David Deming is one of the founders of the Collegiate Leaders in Increasing MoBility (CLIMB) initiative. CLIMB uses big data to look at how higher education can help advance the American Dream by helping people move out of poverty and into the middle class.

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