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A hour鈥檚 wage for a cup of coffee
Mark Sappenfield
鈥淭he minimum wage back home was $7.25, and here, that鈥檚 a coffee.鈥� That鈥檚 Jillian McGeehin, a small-town student now attending the University of Chicago. Today鈥檚 story by Kelly Field looks at why relatively few rural students go to top colleges 鈥� and what can be done about it.聽
Elite colleges have widened America鈥檚 cultural rifts. Kelly鈥檚 story considers the idea that, in reaching out to rural America, maybe they can be a part of the solution, too.聽
