By increasing the number of first-generation, low-income, and/or underrepresented students that enter and complete higher education, both the student AND the economy will be helped, they say. But in this rhetoric, this endeavor to push more first-generation, low-income and/or underrepresented minorities into attaining postsecondary education, we are again putting the burden of solving the nation’s economic problems on those who are already marginalized. 

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