The endeavor of people all over the world to escape poverty has historically been met with unwelcomed odds, despite the impoverished often having the intelligence and drive to do so. Consistently, what has proven to even those odds and bridge the gap between intent and economic empowerment, has been access to education and a willingness to learn. This access however still eludes countries and societies all over the world – and the economies of these countries often pay the price. Inequality of economic opportunity, by many accounts, starts with inequality of educational access. There is no denying the facts: education is expensive and time consuming, requiring the very two things that many people who are actively enduring the costs of poverty or economic isolation simply do not have. To complicate matters, technological advancement, which displaces workers and drives unemployment in low skilled jobs forces the displaced into industries where there are not enough jobs for them, or for which they lack the skills to succeed