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When educational advancement creates financial regression

I am the first person in my family to go to college and my student loan payments are more than my parents' mortgage, and I cannot tell them because they are so proud.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The promise of upward mobility through education becomes a source of hidden economic strain rather than genuine progress.

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