This article is useless - there are no numbers, no proof, that college is affordable. Just the author trying to rationalize her decade old decision of not going to Columbia. (She rattles on about how hard she worked, implying if kids just worked harder they'd have success)

As of 2015 you earn 50% more with a college degree than without. That means a college degree easily pays for itself.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/01/12/pay-gap-betw...