So you have the federal government pulling back in effect, state governments raising tuitions all over the United States and therefore you have a situation in which many young people from many moderate income and poor families simply do not have the access to higher education that they once had.

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Essentially, Facebook is attempting to gather all the data under its own roof, in effect, pulling the rug out from under these services.

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