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36. Benefit of a college degree were pushed mercilessly for decades.

A college education was the key to gaining entrance to the middle class. A lot of folks - myself included - didn't understand how to use the college experience to join the middle class.

I just thought that if I graduated with a degree - any degree - that I could go out and get a middle class job. Boy was I wrong! I had no one to explain to me how career and educational choices were related. The way that I did it definitely did not work the first time.

Later on, I went back to school and studied intensively about career choice and the return on investment to education. I learned that low income folks, foster kids, orphans, and first generation college goers often got little, or inaccurate guidance on how to make a good educational investment.

These folks were also preyed upon by universities, colleges and technical schools such as the University of Phoenix that targeted their Pell grants with little or no concern for whether they would achieve sustainable employment at the end. Millions were scammed and left in debt.

I later created career exploration curriculum to teach the relationship between a sustainable living, career and educational choices. These were the lessons I had learned the hard way, and I didn't want others to make the same mistakes.

Don't blame the folks who thought they were doing the right thing to improve their lives. Most never got information on the right way to go about it. This education was not available to them in most cases.

I applaud Biden's decision. It is a form of restitution in my eyes for misleading so many people into poor educational investment decisions that they didn't have the knowledge to evaluate.