The cost of college has gone up by 1, 000 percent since the 1980s, even as our incomes stagnated and our net worth plunged.

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They set up literacy classes, and tried to teach Haitians the need to manage even their small incomes: that instead of paying for an ornate wooden coffin, a cardboard one would be perfectly satisfactory.

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We had gone through a decade in which jobs were being shipped overseas and job growth was sluggish and incomes were falling even as the costs of health care and college and gas and groceries were going up.

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