At age 31 she "decides to have a child," with no mention of a father or husband. Her son Zachary heads off to a Race to the Top funded public school, while Julia goes on to start her own Web business. She retires at age 67 with Social Security and Medicare supporting her financially and spends her later years volunteering in a community garden.
Julia's happily-ever-after tale is remarkably void of reality. Nowhere in her fictional life is it mentioned that Head Start has done little, if anything, to improve
elementary education, that she will likely graduate with $25,000 in student loan debt, that she has a
50% chance of being unemployed or underemployed after college, that Medicare and Social Security are headed toward
insolvency, and that her share of the national debt is $50,000 and
growing.