The Middle Class Struggles to Afford College
Over the last four decades, the cost of college has increased nearly three-fold.
Real Clear Politics reports.
Families Struggle to Afford College
Michelle Henderson carries $130,000 in student debt, even though she’s never attended a single college class. The 49-year-old Illinois mother and design showroom manager footed the bulk of her daughter’s four years of college because “as a parent you want to make them happy — you want to support their wishes, hopes, dreams.”
But four years after graduating from the University of Iowa, Henderson’s 26-year-old daughter is unemployed and unable to help her mom make the $900 monthly student loan payments. Instead of planning for her retirement, Henderson worries about making ends meet.
Henderson’s story is not uncommon.
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If you are rich, it is paid for. If you are poor, it is paid for. While “middle class” Americans are unable to afford it without going into some serious debt must support the ever growing “poor”.
Think of college much as you would a Trade School, how much will you make as an electrician, carpenter, or plumber after you get out.
With 95 million forced out of the workforce and onto government dependence in this Age of Obama there’s very little use for BA’s in Art History or BSC’s in Animal Science.
One hundred forty nine dollars tuition per semester for an in state student at the University of Connecticut in 1969. Twenty six thousand per semester for an out of state student at Kansas State University, 2016. Talk about inflation