For the past several decades, it seems there's been a general consensus on how to get ahead in America: Get a college education, find a reliable job, and buy your own home.

在过去的几十年里，人们对如何在美国取得成功似乎已经达成了一个普遍的共识：接受大学教育，找到一份可靠的工作，然后买一栋自己的房子。

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There're currently 21.5 million students in America, and many will be funding their college on borrowed money.

目前美国有2150万学生，很多人将依靠借贷支付大学学费。

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At college, Barack Obama didn't know that he was to become the first black president of the United States of America.

上大学时，巴拉克·奥巴马并不知道他将成为美利坚合众国的第一位黑人总统。

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It has a study program currently available to college graduates in twenty-two countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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The thing about corporate America--few people that go to college, like where you are now, and most people in America don't realize how poorly most of our companies are run in this country, with many exceptions.

美国企业的问题是--没有什么人,上过大学，没人去过像你们现在所在的地方，很多在美国的人怀揣着对美国企业的希望,并没有意识到大多数我们的企业，经营的有多糟糕。

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Today we tell you about one of the few prisons in America that offer college-level classes: San Quentin State Prison in California.

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Roughly three out of four home-based women business owners in America are college-educated.

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America's college-educated class is now a much larger share of the population than it was.

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I'm sure most parents would wish their children an education at Harvard, but the vast majority of the college-educated in America receive their education outside of the Ivy League and they are the individuals most responsible for America's economic success.

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