Robert Carr and Dirk Johnson on WGN Radio

Robert Carr and Dirk Johnson on WGN Radio

Robert Carr and co-author Dirk Johnson join WGN Radio’s Rick Kogan to discuss their new book, Working Class to College: The Promise and Peril Facing Blue-Collar America. They tell Rick about the benefits of working towards a college degree and advise on how to...

9 Trenton Freshmen Have Earned College Opportunity

Who could have imagined that the effects of one $250 scholarship given to a young boy in Illinois in 1963 would ripple through the decades, eventually setting nine youngsters from Trenton on a path to college? Those nine, freshmen at the city’s Foundation...