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60 miles from college: Lack of education, a way out of poverty, could ‘kill rural America’

January 26, 2020/

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More than 5 million Americans live in education deserts, lacking any college within a 30-minute drive. Few students go away to college, and poverty persists.

David Jesse, Detroit Free Press


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