Early in the 1960s and 1970s, the people of the state benefited from low-cost university education. Without a huge amount of debt, students can freely try new ideas and start their own careers. The rise of Silicon Valley as an innovative, creative and adventurous place happens almost simultaneously with two generations of students going to a university in California, doing nothing. If they have about $ 100,000 student debt, this may be difficult to achieve. With the current economic downturn, unemployment plagues labor markets. Young people are most affected. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for 16-24 years old in July was 16.3%. By contrast, our nationwide unemployment rate is 7.3%. There are a lot of young people who are unemployed. Gallup recently discovered in June 2013 that only 43.6% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 have full-time jobs.
There are many reasons why low-income students do not have a degree - on average, only 9% of low-income students go to college at the age of 24. Many of these reasons are related to finances, including going to schools where they can not afford it, or finding jobs to cover university expenses. To change this statistic, you need to develop financial guidance for both college decision making and students while in school. Ideally, students receive prior guidance from high school counselors and can receive guidance from the latter from university advisory counselors. Unfortunately, heavy cases often exclude this personalized attention. However, community organizations can also provide economic guidance to students.
The idea of "free community college" is not to encourage more people to attend university, but also to alleviate concern about junior high school students' college costs by offering students an inexpensive bachelor's degree program It helps. If the student gets credits in the first two years of the community college, the bachelor's degree can be reduced by half. Oregon Province has established a free community college scholarship for high school graduates last year in accordance with the leadership of Tennessee Province. There, Mark Haas Democrat Senator said that he used the plan as a way to save money for a long time, as education can help young people find good work and get rid of poverty.