Interesting comment in the article:
“Of the millions of apparently impoverished college students in the country, how many are essentially living on loans or their Pell Grants?”
Cry me a river....I worked full time while attending college AFTER my military service. Left school with no debts too. It can be done, just need to have the will and chose a college one can afford and a program one can achieve something besides a piece of paper with.
“Retired” isn’t really a reason for being poor. If I were in that category, I would find a job, as I’m sure, would most FReepers. I suspect that those categorized in this way probably retired and then became either ill or unable to find work.
Some of the business professors thought is was both interesting and factual. They shared it with one of the female professors who was an English prof but able to horn her way in to teaching one of the graduate level classes in the business department because potential MBAs were thought to be poor writers and poor communicators since most of us had gotten into the program from backgrounds (engineering, math, finance, economics, etc.) were results and problem solving ability were more valued.
Needless to say, I wasn't a popular guy for awhile with the PC crowd and was very glad that (a)I'd already taken my required class and earned my "A" from this particular prof before she learned my right-wing views and (b)that these were strictly night school classes where my exposure to the hippies were considerably less.
Best of all, since Ronald Reagan was president at the time, I could point out that the policy prescriptions which I recommended were actually being implemented with good results.
Women 3522 - Home and Family reasons...
“I can’t work...’cause I gots to take care of all these kids...’cause their ain’t no daddy...so I’ll get knocked up to get more benefits.”
THAT’S the biggest problem right there.