Jeff Merkley actually said...

So if we are caught in a set of policies right now that are accentuating inequality, we must still recognize that we are here in a democracy...

If you go through the doors of that schoolhouse and you work hard, you can do just about anything here in America.

the daunting prospect of the pathway through higher education... might affect... the way they pursue their high school studies.

Corporations may be turning their backs on their workers, but that does not mean that the American Government should do the same.