a job or at least finding a job that pays the bill and helps cover the mortgage. there are still too many families who don't have that security, that basic middle class security that starts slipping away even before this crisis hit. what i want all of you to know is the degree you earn from iowa will not best tool you have to achieve that basic american promise, the idea that if you work hard, if you give it your all, if you're responsible, then you can do well enough to raise a family and own a home and send your own kids to college, put a little away with for retirement. it is the idea that each generation is going to have a little more opportunity than the last. that's at the heart of the american dream. i can tell you as a parent now that when i see maleah and sasha doing well, there is nothing