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Over time, fewer big transactions means less funding for all public agencies and programs that rely on L.A.’s tax base: schools, community colleges and the county and its safety-net programs.

He said he paid for community college in Philadelphia by cleaning toilets on the night shift at a Holiday Inn for $2.89 an hour.

He admits to being a “community college student, second semester freshman year” when it came to knowing about his new beat.

After getting her first offer from a community college in the eighth grade, she never looked back.

But she had heard that, in California, community college tuition was free for residents.