let's bring in ryan mack, president of optimum capital management, and from austin, and aaron smith, co-founder of the group called yun invincible, a non-partisan organization based on issues facing young americans and a cnn.com contributor. aaron, it's your generation. millennials, ages 18 to 30. how do they feel about this shifting, this shifting situation for education? it costs more. you're not guaranteed a job but you know you need it. >> there's tremendous concern out there. we know that as young americans that we need that education to get ahead. there's huge benefits from getting a college degree, but as you mentioned, the price of going to college is going up faster than inflation. it's going up faster than even health care, and unfortunately, the policy we're putting in place, like slashing aid to higher institutions at the state level and cutting pell grants are exactly the wrong policies that are going to make it more affordable to get an education. >> bring you in. the ability to go to college was a milestone for an individual and for a family. you know, has that milesto

let's bring in ryan mack, president of optimum capital management, john doggett, professor at the universityin. and an organization focused on issues facing young americans and rubin navarrette, individuals 18 to 30, how do they feel about the shifting situation for education? it costs more. you're not guaranteed a job, but you know you need it. >> there's tremendous concern out there. we know that as young americans, we need that education to get ahead. there's huge benefits from getting a college degree, but as you mentioned, the price of going to college is going up faster than inflation and going up faster than healthcare. >> yeah. >> unfortunately, the policies that we're putting place like slashing aid to higher institutions at the state level and cutting pell grants are exactly the wrong kind of policies that will make it more affordable to get a higher education and to get ahead. >> i want to bring you in, because the ability to go to college was a milestone for an individual and for a family. has that milestone, the price of that milestone changed and how do we convince kids that, y

thank you, ryan mack. >>> victims of afghanistan are not on the battlefield.red and what some are doing to try and stop it. >>> in afghanistan, police discovered a recently married 15-year-old girl beaten and locked in a basement. her story is part after disturbing trend in the country. cnn's becky anderson reports. >> reporter: this is 15-year-old sahar. afghan police say they found her badly beaten, her hair ripped from her head, her fingernails removed and starving. she was found locked in the basement of her in laws' house, allegedly because she refused to be forced into prostitution. police say they're waiting for her to fully recover to learn more. the in-laws have been arrested but police say the husband fled. her story's just one of many cases of violence against women in afghanistan. >> women have actually made a lot of progress in afghanistan in the last decade. since the discussions of the u.s. withdrawal and foreign troops withdrawal, violence has started increasing and we have to pay attention to that, not only as it impacts women but as it tells