Can Austin’s Schools Handle the Fallout from COVID’s K-Shaped Recession?
For low-income residents of Austin, Texas, the pandemic鈥檚 economic collapse dealt some singular blows. Not only were the small businesses they relied on for work closed or crippled, but an influx of wealthy white-collar workers from more expensive places, like San Francisco and New York, drove housing prices into the stratosphere. As COVID widened and laid bare pre-existing inequities, families of modest means were driven out of their neighborhoods. In this video, 社区黑料 examines the impact of gentrification on the community鈥檚 schools, including one where teachers can鈥檛 afford to live near their classrooms, either.
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