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DougWebb on July 20, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Consumer expenditure survey illustrating the incom...

That's probably a combination of:

1) Going into debt for college makes you poor, and

2) A lot of college degrees are just not worth the cost, if you're expecting them to lead to a good income.

thephyber on July 20, 2017 [–]

> Going into debt for college makes you poor

But these data don't have anything to do with "being poor" -- it's entirely about income, which is still positively correlated with more education.

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