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May 13, 2021, 3:00 p.m. ET Credit.Chris Gash By Stephen Adair and Colena Sesanker Dr. Adair is a sociology professor at Central Connecticut State University. Dr. Sesanker teaches philosophy at Gateway Community College in New Haven, Conn. The last 40 years have seen an ever-widening income gap between those with college degrees and those without. Over that interval, incomes have soared for those with advanced degrees and declined for those with high-school diplomas or less. As a result, the route to economic security for young people depends increasingly on access to higher education. Yet it keeps getting more expensive. Since the Great Recession, the public portion of the operating costs for state universities and colleges in Connecticut, where we teach, has declined 20 percent; since the 1980s, it has declined by nearly half. In the 1960s, tuition for a Connecticut state university was $100 a year, which could be earned by working fewer than 100 hours at minimum wage. Today, a

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