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Helping low-income students

President Obama spoke at the White House today to a group of more than 100 universities and organization gathered for an event, where they unveiled a list of commitments aimed at helping low-income students. The list focused on not only getting students into college, but helping them to graduate as well. One school in attendance was the University of Chicago. Sonya Malunda, senior associated vice president for community engagement at the University of Chicago, joins us.

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