LibertyKid
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Not when I was working and going to school. Making $.50 an hour over min wage wasn't going to put a roof over my head. I guess we would need to further define "Unskilled service job".Here's the problem. The unskilled service job could still pay a decent wage back in the day. enough to put a roof over your head and food on the table, and frankly, for some people, that's enough.
That's a whole other issue.But today, we have kids who go to college for four years, end up hundreds of thousands in debt, and then find they can never dig their way out. They delay having kids, which just compounds the problem.
Kids choosing the wrong higher education, along with going to an overpriced "private" school, while the job opportunities post education aren't there is ridiculous. However, ultimately, the responsibility sits with college student. No one is holding a gun to their head forcing them down an educational path. They sign the FASFA documents for the loans, the responsibility is on them.
Direct experience. My daughter graduated HS, got scholarships. Two different colleges. One public, one private. The cost difference was crazy between the two.
We chose public because she can graduate with no debt. And she did. Now she's making just out of college 70K a year with no student debt.
Opportunities are there. The ones that make the dumb choices and set themself up poorly are the ones we read about from the MSM and what a terrible situation they are in. But in other news, millions of kids make good education choices, work hard, and are successful after college and don't need the gov't handouts and go quietly on with their life.