For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

People are going to keep getting prescribed medication that is counter to what their real disease state is, which is addiction.

Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.