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Re:Why it's expensive to be poor by jhancock on Thursday May 21, 2009 @05:05PM (#621130)
you need better K-12 education for poor areas in order for them to qualify for these "free" university programs.
Re:Why it's expensive to be poor by nostrademons on Thursday May 21, 2009 @07:16PM (#621274)
Yeah, that's what I see as the real problem. I'd really like to see more attention paid to preK-12 education in poor areas, because by the time these kids get to be 18, it's generally too late unless they have heroic individual will. But that means targeted spending - it doesn't necessarily take a lot of money, it takes a moderate amount of money that's well-spent on programs that make a serious impact.