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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was a kid living with a single parent we were poor also and moved from one dumpy apartment to another. I never desired to be rich as a child just "normal" and out of poverty. I considered rich to be like the Howells on Gilligan's Island(before they were shipwrecked!) I thought luxury items were fancy cars, jewelry, butlers, maids, mansions. Now as an adult I have made it to the middle/upper- middle class. But it seems that the new luxuries of out time are a house in a good school district, college, and a family vacation. Elizabeth Warren was right in "The Two Income Trap". We are pricing ourselves out of what seem to be normal family desires-home and education.[/quote]

The Two Income Trap made some good points. We're all stretched so thin, yet we feel we're falling behind on things like college, and a health or job setback spells disaster.[/quote]

Elizabeth Warren made $350,000 per year as a professor.  Ironic that she's writing (and making more money) about how hard it is for "normal" families to afford college. [/quote]

Right about Warren.  For teaching four credit hours, as I understand it.  I attended Harvard for grad school and law school and saw first hand how little many faculty members worked, compared to the faculty at the SLAC I attended for undergrad.  If what you value is the learning experience, and not the connections, a SLAC with small class sizes and no TAs is worth way more than Harvard for college, where there are big lecture courses and TAs who sometimes can't speak English very well (not to mention we're never screened for teaching ability),[/quote]

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