Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

Rather than address the priorities of the middle class, the Ryan budget is an attack on American seniors, students, workers, and families - all for the sake of protecting loopholes for the wealthy and corporations that ship jobs overseas.

We want to get them excited about college, their education, their future.

What you read at Columbia is Plato's Republic and Homer's Iliad. What you learn at Columbia is that reading isn't education. Education is figuring out the hard way that at a school like Columbia, what you read isn't nearly as important as what you wear, how you look, and how much you know about sucking up to professors who really couldn't give a shit about whether some nameless, faceless kid in the 23rd row will work or starve after graduation.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.