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The cost of college education for migrant workers in China as one generation strives for better lives for the next

02/03/2009

Keith Bradsher describes the life of one family of migrant workers in China. The dad is a worker in coal mining, the mother works in farms nearby. The daughter has made it to sophomore in college but lacks optimism for the future because of the lack of jobs in China for new college graduates. The parents see the daughter as someone who would care for them in their old age as they hardly have any retirement savings.

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