Why poor kids don’t stay in college
&gt;<i>There was a moment in his childhood, he recalls, when his parents lived together and the bills were being paid on time. But bad luck and a bad economy shook it all apart. One Thanksgiving, he says, his mother suffered eight strokes. A couple of months later his dad, a roofer, was badly injured in an accident.</i><p>That this shortcut to poverty by medical bills can happen in a modern western society is appalling.