The federal financial aid agency known as FAFSA today tweeted an odd photo of a woman seated on an airplane with the caption, “Help me. I’m poor.”
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The tweet was taken down about an hour after it appeared.
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid is required for anyone seeking financial aid from US colleges and tens of millions of students and parents fill one out online every year. The FAFSA offices were closed late Tuesday but the tweet did come from the agency’s official Twitter account. Twitter followers were not amused.
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The tweet was taken down about an hour after it appeared.
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid is required for anyone seeking financial aid from US colleges and tens of millions of students and parents fill one out online every year. The FAFSA offices were closed late Tuesday but the tweet did come from the agency’s official Twitter account. Twitter followers were not amused.
@FAFSA not everyone who completes a FAFSA is poor and mocking those who are at or below FPL is tasteless, offensive, and ignorant.
— Kristen C.-Kappus (@kckappus) June 25, 2014Along with deleting your tweet, you need to apologize to those that you offended that use this tool to try and better themselves @FAFSA.
— Cody Conners (@gosutrolling) June 25, 2014Being a broke college student funny to y’all? My tens of thousands of dollars in debt so I could get an education a joke? @FAFSA
— Gino Corleone (@GinoTheGhost) June 25, 2014SOURCE
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