#6 - The Middle Class Myth: Why College Doesn't Solve Poverty

Have You Heard heads to college campuses to talk to three current and former students. They "get" what researchers are just beginning to understand: that going to college isn't the silver bullet to solving poverty. By saddling students with debt and degrees that aren't worth that much - if they finish at all - college may even be making the problem worse.

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Occasionally funny and periodically informative, Have You Heard features journalist Jennifer Berkshire and scholar Jack Schneider as they explore the age-old quest to finally fix the nation's public schools, one policy issue at a time.