You Hafta FAFSA

Commentary Higher Education

You Hafta FAFSA

August 28, 2013

Editor’s note: Sara Goldrick-Rab, a member of The Century Foundation’s Community College Task Force, paints the story of America’s broken financial aid system as seen through the eyes of those most affected by its problems: the nation’s college-bound students.

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