The Century Foundation recently published a new analysis tracking how some southern states fail to properly distribute student financial aid, finding that a high share of state grant dollars go to students from high-income families. According to the Century Foundation’s research, one of the worst states when it comes to effectively distributing financial aid is Mississippi, the state with the highest share of Black residents. In Mississippi, some 87 percent of students in the top income quartile and 75 percent of those from the upper-middle quartile receive some form of state grant aid. In comparison, only 44 percent of students in the
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