College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.

You have, unfortunately, a K-12 educational system where the requirements to graduate are not the requirements to be college and career-ready. So if you want young adults who are college and career-ready, our K-12 system right now does not have that as its standard.

Businesses are no longer receiving the cost savings from outsourcing that they once did.

You can learn what you want to learn through hard work. And a good employer will teach you what you want to learn as long as you show the right attitude and behaviors.

At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a single year.

It's not always the case that doing what's right is also doing what's smart, but when it is, the question of 'what to do' should be pretty simple.