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Steve McDowell is the Associate Vice President for Financial Aid Services & Title IV Compliance at Connecticut State Community College.

Steve McDowell is the Associate Vice President for Financial Aid Services & Title IV Compliance at Connecticut State Community College.

Why is it seen as the province of the rich and the rich alone? people are ignoring all of the functions that education had a served throughout our history as a public good. >> certain economic truths have become self-evident. among these the right to a good education. >> right after the second world war, the g.i. bill was passed, which made it possible for men who would never have been allowed to walk onto a college campus except perhaps as members of the custodial staff or as delivery boys to actually walk through the gates as students. >> over 2 million veterans took advantage of the g.i. bi...

>> reporter: we met the gomezes in east l.a. at a fast food restaurant they own. her husband runs it while she works full-time as a business developer. their income is about $90,000 a year. it sounds good, but with a mortgage, two younger children, and a struggling business, they're barely able to afford christian's tuition at marymont college. so when your daughter needed $25,000 for her first year of tuition, what did you guys do? >> i pulled money out of my 401(k). >> reporter: because of her parent's income, christian doesn't qualify for many government student aid programs, so the family ...

School. >> reporter: by all accounts, ann marie gomez wasn't supposed to make it. she was 17 with a baby, but she was determined not to become a statistic. so she married antonio, went on to the university of southern california, where she eventually earned a masters degree in health care administration. >> hi! >> reporter: we met the gomezes in east l.a. at a fast food restaurant they own. her husband runs it while she works full-time as a business developer. their income is about $90,000 a year. it sounds good, but with a mortgage, two younger children, and a struggling business, they're bar...