The lifelong effects of growing up poor

I don't have a good answer for this one, but it certainly is something we've got to weigh in our educational system. It seems that family income not only has a direct influence on going to college--not so much a big surprise there--but on whether or not you finish.
Great charts here.

This continues to argue, as Geoffrey Canada is doing in Harlem, that getting kids at pre-school age is too late. This isn't a school problem; it's a societal one.