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You have to check what the government is making with the Budget, my government is using my taxes in Education and Health care, yours is using it to send your fellow citizens to war for making plutocrats to get foreing resources of which yu will get nothing.
Hang on, I'm busy living in a better country than you are.
Being in IT school never ends. I take it you ran up a large debt borrowing money? My oldest "somehow" is going to school and working at the same time.(horrors) My youngest is a freshman in HS and will be working by the time he drives. Most of my kid's friends work and go to school at the same time. (shocking)
Ever hear of roommates? A budget? I believe you are looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
Hang on, I'm busy living in a better country than you are.
I am living in a rented House made of Brics and buying an appartment in a City of 6 million people, and building a house in an Acre lot, it is made of Rock and Brics, While my parents live in their houses and spend 4 weeks year in the beach.
yes your country is better than mine, but I am happy here.
If that's the case, can I get reimbursed for the ~$50K in loans I paid off by working my butt off for a few years?
It depends on the system.
Somehow Nixon made it for making all the generation before him to get lower taxes and forcing their child to pay their universities, Nixon made the madness that University system of USA is today.
According to Forbes: "Congress approved the plans to relieve students’ debt burden by lowering the monthly payments by borrowers, and forgiving any unpaid loans after 10 to 20 years"
Our congress did this? Man, have I been asleep. Yes, lower the payments. And, I assume they still have deferments, we took them every once in awhile. BUT, loan forgiveness? NEVER. If all this is true, I'm beyond pissed. I spent years paying back my loans and my children's loans. It put a real dent in our lifestyle, a dent that we accepted though. After all, it was our choice to take out the loans. To those of us who paid, this is not fair. Damn slackers.
Well, the average tuition is around $9000 a year. So someone would have to clear that much with a job.
Figuring someone with no to low skills will be making how much? $8.15/hr? Even at full time employment, that is only $16,900 a year before taxes. Given that many low wage jobs are not full time, that salary drops even more.
There is also housing, food, transportation, and books to pay.
This also assumes that it is easy to schedule classes and work around each other, which it is not.
Then there is the availability of jobs; some colleges have tens of thousands of people, which far exceeds many towns' ability to employ all of them.
I worked during college, and had the GI Bill, but my work was not even close to being able to pay completely for everything for college.
College requirements should be revamped completely. In the old days, when you lived and died in your community, going away to college was a way to become educated about people from other areas and backgrounds, and to take classes that would make you more well rounded and worldly.
The majority of students going into college no longer need this. Many have traveled overseas, they live in diverse communities, are well rounded and worldly.
Cut college education so students only take the classes they need in order to enter their field. Make it a one or two year program and lower the costs so they're in line with what they charge students in Canada, which is far more affordable.
I get that college is big business, and they would hate the thought of halving the timeframe for getting a degree, but I believe more people would go to college if it was 1) more affordable and 2) only a two year program.
How do you pay for $12,5000 tuition alone per year when you're only making $18,000 in some service industry job?
That was the "in-state" rate for Penn State when I went. The out-of-state tuition rate was around $25,000 per year.
Take a loan from a bank or borrow from family members. See if your employment have any programs that will help pay for your tuition. Perhaps, attend a school that cost less. There's always a way if you have the desire. The current system with the government getting involved is why tuition is high. College students don't know any better. They take the money and then go buy things they don't need.
If you can not afford to go to college, then you don't go. Not going to college isn't the end of the line. You want lower tuition? tell the government to back off.
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