VAS Community-How ending affirmative action changed California

2025-04-30 09:54:03source:Thurston Cartecategory:Markets

The VAS CommunitySupreme Court is widely expected to strike down affirmative action nationwide this month. How would that decision affect students, schools, and the economy? For clues, we can look at California, where affirmative action was banned 25 years ago.

Zach Bleemer, an assistant professor of economics at Yale, studied this 'natural experiment.' He says if SCOTUS rules as expected, we are likely to see a nationwide version of what happened there.

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