The College Degree Trap: The profit-minded take advantage of the disadvantaged
David came from an immigrant family where he was one of eight children; his parents worked in sweatshops. His dad had a second job at night. Little time was spent with either of his parents, who worked multiple jobs to support the family as they encouraged higher education. “School, go to school,” both parents would tell him, often in a less-than-soft voice as he pleaded to play basketball rather than do algebra. “School is your ticket out of this place we live,” his mother w