Helping the Underserved

One of last nights episodes on 60 Minutes dealt with scholarships to help the poor with regard to being able to go to college. Many people who live in poverty quite simply cannot afford to pay the rapidly escalating cost of attending the university of their choice. It's not a matter of effort either.

The President of Princeton, along with Melinda and Bill Gates, are seeing to it that students who otherwise couldn't afford a college education are getting a chance. That means that the Gates, and others, are paying the freight.

The results of assisting those in poverty are stunning. Students who come from the low rungs of the socio-economic ladder are doing extraordinarily well terms of making the grade in school and they are performing at a high standard in the world of work.

That might be surprising to some but to those offering the scholarships they have found that just because one comes from an impoverished background that doesn't mean they don't study or that they don't care about their future. Melinda and Bill Gates have found that plenty of people, who come from meager means, do want to get ahead and they'll work hard at doing it.

Dick