Well, they could get jobs and try to move the heck out of there.
That is exactly what I said to my husband yesterday! We graduated from college 1969 and moved to Clute Texas. He became a chemical engineer at Dow Chemical in Freeport. We came here from Okla State U. He was fortunate, his folks paid for his college. I paid for mine with bank loans (couldn’t get student loans, I tried) and working summers in a hot factory, Liberty Glass, in Sapulpa Ok. No AC in there where it was 110 in the factory and 106 outdoors in the summers. Sure gave me huge incentive to finish college and move and find a job some place else. Never crossed my mind to loot, protest, steal, riot! I was too busy working and finishing school.
But these kids in Mo and across USA don’t even bother to finish H.S.! Colleges are having to had REMEDIAL MATH, SCIENCE, ENGLISH etc for the kids who do attend college.
When our kids were in school all the kids were pretty much over-achievers. You had to be in the top 10% to be guaranteed entry into UT and T-A&M.
Now it is dumbell math in too many places.