Working-Class Students Feel the Pinch

Longstanding aid formula can make it seem that have-nots have more money for college than they really do

Finals are fast approaching, but Marc Chlebowski, a freshman at California University of Pennsylvania here, has been spending as much time in the financial-aid office as he has studying.

Before arriving here in the fall, he had hoped that he would be able to pay his own way through college. He's come up short.

Abandoned by his father at age 3 and raised with two

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