One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.
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One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.
Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs.
Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
The failures that we have are sometimes expensive educations.
By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.
The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.
To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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