Middle Class Dreams: A College Education

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From the article:

I begged my mom to stay poor because it was the only way I was going to make it through college. If she had earned just $3,000 more a year, she would have moved to the other side of the poverty line and the financial aid would have been too little to cover my costs. So like any good momma would do, she turned down a higher paying job and stayed poor so her baby could go to college. This is what America has come to: if you want an education that doesn’t cost you 40 years of debt, you need to either get rich fast or stay poor.

Read more at Persephone Magazine.

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Source: persephonemagazine.com

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