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Barack Obama: “College is the single most important investment you can make in your future.”

On the recordJanuary 26, 2012
College is the single most important investment you can make in your future.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor

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