[greedo]

When I went to college, I could earn enough in one summer to pay for my tuition and books. Not my housing or anything else though. In the intervening 40 years, tuition costs have gone through the roof. There's no way that someone can work their way through school. Even community college in my town is expensive. Unless you can get an academic scholarship, or are very low income and get a needs based grant, you're stuck with loans.