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What Was Necessary to Be an Asset, Has Become a Liability?
Roxanne Jones: I thought one of the most pointed lines in your story was a quote from one of the people you talked to. She said, what was supposed to be an asset became a liability. And that seems to have deeper society ramifications, if people are starting to perceive that this nan education supposed to be all of our goals, has actually become a liability.Jones: People didn't regret their education. They regretted maybe not working while they were in school. They regretted taking on so much debt. But again, like when you're 18, 19 years old, you don't understand it. You go back to the financial crisis, you look at the rising student debt and it
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