The proportion of bachelor's degrees awarded to students from lower-middle-income families has declined from about 15 percent of all B.A. degrees in 1980 to about 11 percent in 2004, and those students' average debt is growing. Financial-aid experts say the federal government's aid formula, which assumes that those students enroll in college straight from high school, depend on their parents for financial support, and do not work, penalizes them for holding down jobs to pay their way through college. What changes should be made in that formula to update it?
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