Despite debt, college still worth cost -- to a degree

Karnell Black faced a difficult decision his senior year at a Dallas high school: He liked his job as a law firm file clerk and was making decent money -- $10 an hour. His family wasn't pushing him to go college, which he knew would be expensive. Should he apply, take out loans to attend, and then try to succeed in college when no one else in his family had gone?

But after a school counselor persuaded him to try, Black now says his decision to attend Loyola University Chicago changed his life.

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