Middle-income families are being squeezed out of the University of California

Evidence

The University of California Annual Accountability Report indicates that over the past decade, there has been increased enrollment by students from lower-income families (under 50,000) and upper-income families (more than 149,000), while there has been more than a 10 percent drop in enrollees from middle-income families (50,000 to 149,000), with the greatest proportion of that drop coming from students of families earning between 100,000 and 150,000. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 668

Categorization

• XREF: Evidences the hollowing out of the middle class central to Winner-Take-All Politics (Hacker and Pierson, cited here) and to the book’s argument about the erosion of democratic public spheres. — connects to: The University of California grew tenfold in enrollment across seven decades — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 667

Broader Connections

• The University of California grew tenfold in enrollment across seven decades #expands (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 667