I asked children if they could send a message, any message, to you, what would it be? And here is the winning theme: You are lucky. Yes, you with the student loans and no jobs, you are lucky. A girl in Chad, in the West African nation of Chad, is more likely to die in childbirth than to see school past eighth grade. She is more likely to die in childbirth than to get to the eighth grade and beyond. So that's the benchmark of what I consider lucky and privileged. And each one of you who is about to graduate today is inordinately more advantaged than many of your peers in the world.
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