It also will provide for their medical
needs, produce in factories what they need to consume, educate
them (even college tuition is free at the public universities),
guarantee them work in the government if they get college
degrees, and help transport them to work. In this contract with
the people, the government wants to ensure that Egyptians are
not denied social services and that there will never be hunger,
epidemic, or widespread illiteracy. To some extent the system
is successful. Egypt does not have famines, for example, and
indices of quality of life such as literacy and life expectancy
are better now than they were before the 1952 revolution. The
poorest people have been able to afford the basic necessities of
life, especially staple food items. And students who complete
their college degrees do get jobs