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502. “I Don’t Think the Country Is Turning Away From College.”

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The Effect of Covid on the Elites

There is a big gap, and it's disturbing. What i like to focus on is how many high school graduates are going straight to college. If they don't make that transition, the chance of them making it in the future is much smaller. I am worried that this could be a driver of increase poverty and another factor exasperating inequality going into the future. We have a group of people who normally would have gone to college, they're not going to college.

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