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How financial limitations challenge identity narratives

My friends are all posting about their kids' college acceptances and I am secretly relieved mine chose community college because I cannot afford the alternatives.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic constraints force confrontation with class differences previously masked by social proximity.

Ideas that help explain it
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