11. Tuition at any Ivy League school is pretty much a rounding error no one cares about. Endowments are all that matters.
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22. Bank accounts are surprisingly hard to get if you don’t have much money
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23. One of the biggest limiting factor in many Americans getting an education is geography. They don’t live near a college/university and making that move would be tremendously expensive relative to their incomes
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computers are cheap but internet access is expensive and nobody's designing software to work offline anymore
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This is insane. Understandable but insane. How do we help?
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Thanks Austen. I'm on a loner from Lambda ;-)
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Computers aren't expensive? "Expense" is quantitative because a price point is often a fixed number, but remember "expensive" is relative to the buyer's income and other financial obligations. For some of us, eating more than one meal a day is "too expensive".
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I write from the perspective of someone who is actively working to rise above the poverty line and who understands that higher education is paramount. You do an excellent job of listing the hurdles, but it may be helpful to see the climb from our vantage point, too.
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See data about how $400 spells disaster and or how rent to own type businesses are predatory and keep good people locked into a cycle of poverty
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How about lack of 24-7 access to a Internet connection? This is the most significant capital obstacle still stumping me.
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