Is College Still a Path to Success in California?

Generations of young people have believed that a college degree provides a path out of poverty, a way to get a piece of the California dream. If you graduated high school during the 1950s in California, you easily got into the college of your choice. A decade later, even if your family had no money to send you to college, you could still attend a public university for little or no cost under a law called the Master Plan for Higher Education. That college degree was your ticket to the middle class. But that's not the case anymore, especially if you're a low-income Latino student at the University of California. Does higher education in California still lead to greater economic opportunities?