Brink Lindsey, author of "Culture of Success", believes that parents from lower income families typically produce children who don’t do as well in school due to the lack of parental involvement due to the high number of hours spent working, the lack of motivation from their parents to develop good study habits, and lower income parents not obtaining degrees or attending college. Lindsey uses studies and statistics to substantiate his claim throughout the text. He also brings up stereotypical reasons lower income children do poorly in school and invalidates them with his research.
Lindsey believes something is deterring low-income families from going to college. He begins by giving statistics from a study performed by Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz showing that supply of college graduates is down significantly in 2005 as opposed to 1980 . Lindsey points out that in 2006, minorities were the most prominently affected with this problem when it comes to graduating with a degree. He uses statistics
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To counter balance these issues, Lindsey states there could be more Preschool enrichment programs. He also states that wage subsidies could help bring lower class families into the middle class range. Lindsey states that by giving back more money to the families and involving their children in these education programs at young ages, we should see an increase in students who attend college.(456) Demand indicates that there's a need for more skilled workers in the economy. Lindsey states that we need to quit blaming the economic system.(456) He feels that as a society, we need to start helping people adapt. Money is not the problem. Regardless, there is no gurantee to success, no matter the