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by Spartan-S63 178 days ago
Even still, over more than two decades, only a ten percentage point increase is still somewhat mind-blowing.

As someone who grew up upper middle class in a wealthier suburban area, I lived in a bubble where the vast majority of people I went to high school with went off to college and got bachelors degrees. To me, it seemed that that was the norm for most Americans, but that's far from reality.