Chapter 1521 Can't Afford to Read?

"But have you ever thought about it, you have to sit in that position to be eligible to talk about changes?"

Yang Cheng's eloquent question did not cause Santander to hesitate or be shocked as expected. Obviously, he is not the first person to mention similar suggestions.

"My opinion will not change, and my behavior will not change!" Santander's tone was extremely flat, but it was precisely behind this flatness that there was firmness hidden!

Yang Cheng wanted to continue persuading, but Santad brought the topic back to the pressure of the students.

“Currently, nearly 70 percent of U.S. college graduates leave school with huge debts, with an average amount exceeding $35,000.

One in eight graduates will need to pay more than $50,000 in "excellent student loans" after graduation, not counting the credit card debt left over to make ends meet during school.

Clearly, those who go to medical school, dental school, nursing school or graduate school are more in debt.

Before running for the election, I commissioned a university in Vermont to conduct a special study. Although other types of personal debt have been declining year by year in recent years, student debt has been increasing.

At present, all 43.3 million students in the United States, including current students, graduates, and dropouts, have a total of more than 1.3 trillion US dollars in student loans, more than three times that of 2004, and more than the sum of all credit card and car loans in the United States.

And of those 43.3 million people, a growing number will spend their lives in student loan debt.

According to our tally, Americans nearing retirement are the group with the highest student loan debt, surging from $2.8 billion in 2005 to $18.2 billion in 2013.

I still remember a gentleman I met at a speech rally in Nevada, he was 55 years old, and he told us that he had been paying off his student loans for the past 25 years, but 25 years later he was more in debt than he was when he took out the loan . "

Yang Cheng listened quietly, and Santander was very indifferent when it came to whether he could ascend to the throne.

But when it comes to the issues of people's livelihood that he cares about, he turns into an angry youth, just like an ordinary young man complaining about the injustice of society!

But what can Yang Cheng do? He seems to be unable to do anything on his own. The only thing he can do is to send people who can solve some problems to their proper positions, but they are unwilling to accept his funding.

trouble! depressed! This was Yang Cheng's mood at the moment.

The world-wide problems raised by Santard not only have no solutions at present, but even have no possibility of a little relief.

Worse than being poor is getting poorer; worse than being expensive is getting more expensive!

This is the problem that all students studying in the United States are facing now, not only local students, but also foreign students.

Hope that the world will get better by itself is as illusory as hoping that you will win the first prize in the lottery, and not only will it not get better, but the reality will get worse and worse.

In the United States, one student is likely to become a heavy burden on the entire family, and it is becoming more and more burdensome.

The reality is that the cost of higher education is rising, and it is getting harder and harder for the average American to get the college education they want.

For more than 40 years, the cost of tuition at four-year public universities has nearly quadrupled, even after accounting for inflation.

Tuition fees have risen by 60% in the past 10 years alone.

Despite such a severe situation, the US government still did not take corresponding measures, and even made wrong choices.

The cost of college has been rising, but public education funding per student has been falling.

This situation has been going on for decades, and the Great Recession has made the situation worse, and the governments around the world have begun to drastically cut the funding of public universities.

Since many governors' campaign donations come from some large, wealthy corporations, cutting taxes for the rich is a priority, more important than enabling working-class students to get a college education. In other words, what politicians need is votes.

Whoever votes for them gets help.

This is what Santander hates the most!

"In 1980, state governments subsidized almost 80% of teaching costs, today it's less than half.

In the United States, where more than three-quarters of college students attend public universities, what will cutting funding mean for them? "

Yang Cheng spread his hands and replied helplessly, "It means that for these students and their parents, they must also bear the soaring college expenses, regardless of the fact that wages have stagnated for decades."

Santander pressed the table, "That's right! 40 years ago, education spending on public universities accounted for only 4% of a family's annual income, but now it accounts for 15%.

40, or even 30 years ago, as long as students worked full-time summer part-time jobs and took the minimum wage at that time, they could earn a full year of college tuition.

Today, students earning minimum wage need to work a full year to save all that money to pay for public colleges in the state.

But you and I both know that the minimum wage is even difficult to live on, let alone have a surplus.

This creates a vicious cycle, with many children from low-income families working side-by-side, sometimes taking on more than one job in addition to classes, studies and unpaid internships.

Considering that they have to work night shifts at McDonald's when they are preparing for the final exam, one can imagine how their grades will be. A simple estimate is that college students spend 30-40 hours a week on part-time jobs after studying. hours, which means that they spend half the time studying less than students who do not need to work.

Except for geniuses, can ordinary people get the same grades with less than half the study time? "

Yang Cheng opened his mouth, he really wanted to say yes, but thinking of his experience in college, he couldn't say that.

In recent years, a strange phenomenon has appeared. In the past, the students who ranked high in each university were generally from low-income families, because studying is their only way out. Only by studying and getting good grades can they change their lives!

But now, the top ones are often students born in middle-class families who don’t need to worry about tuition fees and living expenses, and many even come from rich families, because they have higher requirements for their children’s education, and there is no need for you to go out to work to waste time. Under such circumstances, if you devote all your energy to studying, you can imagine the results.

And those students who need to go out to work to earn tuition fees can only barely get a diploma, cannot get a recommendation letter from a tutor, and are not eligible to enter a large company for internship, cannot get a high salary, cannot pay off their student loans, and are under debt pressure. They are forced to do manual work, at least they can work a few more jobs to earn money and pay off debts.

Little by little, they gradually drifted away from the path of changing their lives, and finally even became street bums. This is the most real and cruel side of American society.

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