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There's a college affordability crisis happening in the US right now. Tuition rates have soared, while increases in blue collar wages have slowed to a crawl. This adds up to a painful realization for lower-income young people desperately hoping to go to college: there's no way to pay for it. Bobbi Dempsey shares her brutally honest first-person account of the struggle to pay for her children's and her own education on a working-class salary.

President Trump’s new plan to limit and control what low-income families can eat is short on both compassion and common sense.

"Poor People Deserve Better Than Food in a Box" is from the February 15, 2018 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Bobbi Dempsey and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.