Importance Of Raising Rates In The 1950's: After High School

This week for PLN I read "Is College Worth It? Clearly, New Data Say" by David Leonhardt is about how college is worth it even with its cost. In the article, it describes how important a degree is. It said in the article that 98% of people with a degree made more money than people without a degree. There is nothing inevitable about this trend. If there were more college graduates the pay gap would shrink. The true cost of a degree is negative $500,000. The unemployment rate for 25 and 34 years old is 3%. That is from having a degree. The average hourly wage for a college graduates has risen 1% to 32.60.

Some people think that getting a college education is not really a good idea anymore. According to Abel and Deitz, “In recent years, students have been paying more to attend college and earning less upon graduation—trends that have led many observers to question whether a college education remains a good investment” (2014, p. 1). If the student cannot find a job that pays a decent amount of money, after graduation why should the government ‘fund it?. College costs are rising each year. Future generations may not be able to go to college because tuition will be too high. But Abel and Deitz

College costs go up faster than incomes. This is copping out low and middle-class families from getting a decent college education. College is becoming so expensive that it is a dream to a lot of less fortunate people. The tuitions and fees are public universities have increased almost 130% over the past 20 years. Education prices shouldn't increase as jobs and income decrease; that doesn't make sense. For colleges to increase tuition fairly, incomes would have to increase making the average annual income more than $50,000. Whereas, in 2008, the median income was $33,000. That's a big difference. As prices increase, education opportunities decrease. This leads to a decrease in jobs. Ironic because businesses are looking for well-educated employees.

The 1950’s was a time of great social change. The word, ‘teen-ager’ was recently coined and applied to people aged thirteen to nineteen. During this decade, people’s perception of youth and adolescents drastically changed as children became more rebellious. Previous to 1950. society consisted of two main stages of human development: children and adults. When the Baby Boom started in 1946, producing more babies, a new era of music, attitudes, practices, and dance began to appeal to kids that did not feel socially accepted by adults in society. This was the start of the teenage rebellion. With increased teenager presence came more disapproval because of rebellious behaviour. Teenagers were pitted against media, parents, and local authority. Teenagers started disobeying parents, getting expelled from school, and fighting back against authority. Indeed, the ‘50s were a time that saw upheavals towards the impact of the music, change of attitudes, new fashions, and new dances developed children into teenagers.

Education is the most valuable belonging a person deserves and needs. It is the key to success, wealth, knowledge, and a career that will push you further in the future. Also, high-quality education is a must in the U.S, which means it will help the future generations tackle the nation issues later on. It should be the only thing that cannot be taken away from anyone and it will open many doors full of opportunities. Education will help us grow as an individual, have a better outlook on life, and will help withstand the hardships of life, but what happens when education get cuts down? Are today student’s being cheated out of best education possible to balance the budget?

Despite the fact that hourly wages for college educated people are decreasing,”college educated in 2000 were $22.75, but that dropped almost a full dollar.”(C) ,the wage gap between college graduates and those with only a high school diploma has in fact increased.”(D) Last year the gap reached 83 percent.” The gap is bigger than it has ever been , making the option of going to college better than it was before.

Branching off of financial aid for education, think of all the other financial benefits that the government offers. Such as social security, food stamps, and healthcare. With the prosperity of our economy, these things will be less of a burden on our government and everyday tax payers. This increase in minimum wage will help everyone overall. Health care will become cheaper due to the fact that companies are paying their employees a fixed rate that they can live comfortably with. As the rate increases we will see the use of food stamps dwindle. There will be no need for these food stamps when families can afford their groceries and necessities with their own cash, due to a higher minimum wage. Social Security will gain more money from the employee’s checks, helping later generations. This higher income will give the elderly more support with their social security income. When the minimum wage is higher, our daily and life lasting necessities will be benefited greatly.

Family incomes are increasing, therefore we can assume that those living with a family income of 100,000 dollars or greater, will be able to fund their children’s education. Students are also maintaining jobs as they attend their post secondary education, and therefore they’re appreciating the value of money and their education. The quality of post-secondary education must be protected, and in order to do this, prices of education may need to increase. Therefore, consideration of the following policy may be crucial for students to continue to attend post-secondary education (Brown

“The only way to be successful and make a good living you must go to college,” I’ve heard that millions time’s during High School. Thousands of students graduate each year and apply to Universities. Waiting to see if they are accepted or not to the school. Some attend For-Profit Vocational college’s and other’s go to Non-profit Universities. But, with admission is tuition, that is a required to be paid each semester for a student. The price of tuition has skyrocketed excessively throughout history. What happened to the cost of education? Why is tuition rising, have schools become a business rather than an institution? What is more significant money or graduation rates for the schools?

In America over the past decade, college tuition prices have gone through the roof. Many Americans today suffer with incredibly high debt, or they fear that they will not be able to pay off their debt, resulting in fewer people wanting to continue their education. Without citizens getting a higher education, America would be uneducated, which would result in America becoming neurologically nullified. Sarah Amandalore (2014), writer for the Los Angeles Times states in her article “The student loan crisis: How middle-class kids get hammered”, ‘The Delta Cost Project’ at American Institutes for Research examined rising college costs and concluded that, in recent years, a combination of state funding cuts, overspending by research universities and decreased donations have led to tuition spikes at both public and private schools” (pg. 1). When lower-income families are faced with these problems, it makes getting a higher education hard to reach. With a higher education, more life and job opportunities become available. By the government putting a limit on the amount colleges could raise their tuition, more people may opt to get a higher education. The fear of being in debt makes the idea of a higher education less valuable to many people. The government should restrict the tuition amount charged

Another reason why teachers should be paid more is that “We will have no teachers” (Snyder). Kasey Snyder said, “No one wants to have a job that underpays and undervalues them.” A lot of people choice another path of career when they go to college instead of being a teacher because teachers do not get paid enough. In Teachers Need a Raise, it says that young teachers are “… more likely to cite low pay as one of the main drawbacks of teaching than older teachers and are also more likely to leave the profession because of low starting salaries.” (Partelow). People that want to be a teacher end up not doing it for long in college and change their major or graduate and not teach for long and go to school for

According to an article in the Economist, “Is College Worth it?”, the wage gap between full time employees with a college degree and full time employees with only a high school diploma is around $17,500 a year, with differences in regard to which degree a worker has. However, the price of education is going up. In 1970, the annual tuition for Yale was $2,550, while the minimum wage was $1.60 an hour, meaning in order to pay a year’s tuition to Yale; one had to work an average of 6.4 hours a day for 250 days a year. The 2014 tuition for Yale is $45,800, which means at $7.25 an hour a student would have to work 25.3 hours a day for 250 days in order to pay (Natalie). Many students take internships and work minimum wage jobs in order to reduce the debt they must take on in order to graduate, and the current minimum wage cannot support the cost of a college education. Logically speaking, if no one can afford a college education, employees with a college education will become rarer, and the wage gap will increase, making it more important to get a college education, increasing the amount a debt people are willing to take on to gain a degree, increasing the cost of a degree, all the while reducing the quality of life of everyone except for those who stand on the financial pillars supported by inadequate

    Why do almost all students dread school? Though the answer may differ between different people, the main reason why most students dread school is because we have to go to school almost everyday and work, receiving no reward. There is nothing to look forward to in school and though the idea may sound absurd, students should get paid for good grades. School is work, it’s difficult and it takes up our entire day, filling the rest of our free time with homework or topics to study. If we got paid for doing good in school, then we would be encouraged to keep up the hard work and we would put more effort in school. Meaning that the next generation of adults would be well educated and would benefit society in many ways. Getting paid for good grades would also help us see the responsibility that comes with money. It would also help prepare us for life after school because we would know how to spend our money wisely, so in other words, students should get paid for good grades because school is work, we would be more encouraged to be diligent and we would learn the responsibility that comes with money.

Students should get paid to study, to have good grades, and to have good work habits so that they become better students, more motivated and therefore are more successful when they enter the workforce as adults. Many people believe this is the formula for success. Get paid for the good grade, right? There are three compelling reasons why students should be paid to go to school: going to school is essentially a full time job so students should be paid; money is a strong motivator, especially for kids; and it’s good for the economy to have future workers who are motivated by money to do an excellent job. After discussing these three points, it will be hard to dispute the fact that paying students to go to school and get good grades is a good thing and has positive results.

The rising costs of formal education has become a real and concerning issue for most Americans. Whitehouse.gov states, the average income of families has remained roughly the same in the last three decades. In that time the tuition rates have more than tripled. This leaves families struggling to get their kids through school. According to Forbs, universities and colleges have been raising their tuition fees by 2 to 5% each year. Forbs also found that in public schools while students are paying more for their education, the college or university is spending less money on the student’s education. Forbs explains that the 2008 recession is largely to blame. On the contrary, that was 6 years ago and public schools are still spending less money on student’s education but charging the student more for it. This means that the tuition students are paying is not being