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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those who describe themselves as poor in the '70s, three questions:

1) How would you describe your SES now?

2) If you have experienced upward mobility, to what do you attribute this?

3) If you attribute your upward mobility to postsecondary education, how did you finance it?

(DCUM -- where would all of us amateur sociologists go without you?)  [/quote]

1. Higher SES than one sibling, probably the same as the other but we live in DC and they live in NC.

2. My parents insisting our lives would be financially better, instilling that in us and then 2 of us following through on that.

3. Worked my way through school, paid loans after except one my mother paid off since they had given my sibs support but not me.

Also it was easier until about 15-20 years ago when housing and fuel prices climbed and stayed high.  My friends who earn our income in other parts of the country are starting to feel the pinch too.  College costs are obscene compared to what they were when DH and even younger friends attended.  [/quote]

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