Bobbi Dempsey

Bobbi Dempsey is a freelance writer and a communications fellow at Community Change. She is the author of Degrees of Desperation: The Working-Class Struggle to Pay for College.

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When Middle-Class Values Determine What’s Essential

Poor people suffer when the definition of a “life sustaining” service ignores their needs.
- Bobbi Dempsey
- March 26, 2020
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They Bribed College Coaches. I Collected Cans for Cash.

For parents without great wealth, the higher-education system looks much different.
- Bobbi Dempsey
- March 14, 2019

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Bobbi Dempsey

When Middle-Class Values Determine What’s Essential

They Bribed College Coaches. I Collected Cans for Cash.