In 1970, I returned to college after four years in the USAF.

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10. The statistics say otherwise

"Now, a college degree is out of reach for a broad spectrum of people in their late teens and 20s."

Their is a higher percentage of people in the US who are college graduates today than ever before.

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/time-series/demo/cps-historical-time-series.html

"Food was cheap if you cooked for yourself. Now, none of that is true.'

In 1947 we spent 23.0 percent of our income on store-bought food. This had fallen to just 7.1 percent last year.

https://cepr.net/publications/in-the-good-old-days-one-fourth-of-income-went-to-food/