Two years after Obama’s college graduation initiative, major obstacles remain

Jake Boyd, photographed on the campus of Macomb Community College in Warren, MI on Wednesday, June 22, 2011. Boyd took five years to finish a criminal-justice degree while working two jobs at the same time he was going to classes. (Photo by Rob Widdis/McClatchy Tribune)
WARREN, Mich.—Estranged from his family at 17, Jake Boyd put himself through Macomb Community College