At LaGuardia Community College in New York, where I am president, 77 percent of students live in households making less than $25,000 per year. Many of our students start their days by taking their child to day care on the bus. Then they take the subway to college, then ride a different bus to their job, another bus to pick up their child and a final bus to go home. Once home, they still need to cook dinner, help their child with homework, tuck the child in, tidy up and complete their own college coursework.
The contrast between this, and my own college days, back in the Fifties - is amazing. Working your way through college, as many of us did, was not easy. But compared to this, it was a piece of cake.
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