My First Clues about Social Injustice

I was fortunate enough to go to university at a time when it was affordable. Tuition was under $3,000 a year, and a combination of Pell grants and working part-time jobs could pay for your education. That was back when university “work-study jobs” offered meaningful academic-related employment with adequate compensation. (An aside: when I was an undergraduate, you could work about 400 work-study hours to pay for your tuition, but today’s students would have to work over 2,000 work-study hours.)

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