Atkinson, Abbye2019-04-252019-04-252010http://hdl.handle.net/10919/89185This article reports new data from the 2007 Consumer Bankruptcy Project revealing that college graduates and specifically White graduates are less likely to file for bankruptcy than their counterparts without a college degree. Although these observations suggest that a college degree helps graduates to weather the setbacks that sometimes lead to financial hardship as measured by bankruptcy, they also indicate that a college degree may not help everyone equally. African American college graduates are equally likely to file for bankruptcy as African Americans without a college degree. Thus, a college education may not confer the same protective benefit against financial hardship for African Americans that it does for their White counterparts.application/pdfen-USCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationaleducational attainmentAfrican American studentscollege graduate studentscollege students, Whiteeducation, higher--costsArticle - RefereedVolume 16: Issue 1https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=mjrl