Angela Memoli (Edison): Higher Tuition in Colleges

With the tuition rising in Not only in the tuition is going up, but Students will pay, on average, from $381 to $408 more than last year for this year’s room and board, depending on the type of college acconding to College Board.com. This could hurt the job force in the up coming years.
“When we come out of the recession,” Mr. Callan added, “we’re really going to be in jeopardy, because the educational gap between our work force and the rest of the world will make it very hard to be competitive. Already, we’re one of the few countries where 25- to 34-year-olds are less educated than older workers.” Although college enrollment has continued to rise in recent years, Mr. Callan said, it is not clear how long that can continue. - The New York Times.

The middle income family are willing to go into dept to get thier children in college, but the poor families don’t really have that choice. Society will fall a bit in the work force because we don’t have poeple who want to go to college going to college because they can’t afford it. This itself hursts us, because then we have less people trained to do the jobs that a need college degree to get. For explample, doctors, nurses, teachers, zoo technology. These things will not have a lot of people working in these fields and more.

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