The following is an excerpt from What It’s Worth: Strengthening the Financial Future of Families, Communities and the Nation, a report produced by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Corporation for Enterprise Development. Martha Kanter, executive director of the College Promise Campaign, contributed the chapter “A Lifecycle Approach to Putting Higher Education Within Reach.”

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