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The article in Time on Oct 6th 2019,Equal or Elite that Harvard,Princeton, and Yale all boast that their incoming classes include more students from modest backgrounds than ever before. All three trumpet financial aid programs that require zero contribution from students whose families have annual incomes below $65,000. But poor and middle-class students remain drops in an ocean of privilege. And the modest increases in economic diversity at elite colleges are built on a model that simply cannot be scaled up.

最新一期的美國《時代》周刊題為《平等化還是精英化》的文章提到，哈佛、普林斯頓和耶魯大學(xué)都自詡今年來自普通家庭的學(xué)生人數(shù)創(chuàng)歷史新高。這三所名校都在鼓吹各自的“經(jīng)濟援助項目”——對家庭年收入在6.5萬美元以下的學(xué)生不要求捐贈。盡管如此，出身貧寒和中產(chǎn)家庭的學(xué)生在這特權(quán)的滄海里仍只是一粟。精英大學(xué)對學(xué)生家庭經(jīng)濟地位多元化所做的些許改變是有限的。

The article with the title saying Why Is Nothing Being Done to Fix Our Infrastructure? in Washingtonpost on Oct 3rd, 2019, mentioned thatWashington is stuck in its own version of “Groundhog Day.”The Trump Administration has for years promised a ”great national infrastructure program”, yet has pushed the issue to the back burner again and again and again.There would be a $2 trillion infrastructure funding gap over the next decade. If it isn’t addressed, this gap will cause the U.S. economy to lose almost$4 trillion in GDP between now and 2025.

2019年10月3日的《華盛頓郵報》一篇題為《美國基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施老化，政府不作為》的文章稱，美國基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施的振興之路前途未卜。特朗普當(dāng)局所承諾的“基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施建設(shè)方案”被一拖再拖。美國基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施建設(shè)資金缺口在接下來的10年將達到2萬億美元。如果該問題不解決，從現(xiàn)在算起，到2025年，美國經(jīng)濟將共計損失近4萬億美元。