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[quote=Anonymous]I agree that there are multiple paths to steady employment and solid compensation, and taking out more than the standard subsidized loan package is a risk, particularly for low-income, not particularly strong students going to just okay college.  However, the realities are more complicated than go into a trade and then your problems are solved. Where I live, community colleges are massively oversubscribed for all of the programs that will actually prepare students for a path to a well paying job. Advanced manufacturing is growing her and pays well, but it tends to require more math than most of our students coming out of (not great) public schools can handle, and when they go to cc they get stuck in remedial classes and burn through their Pell money without getting credits (because you don't get credits for remedial work). I think poor and working class families are reluctant to go through the sacrifice of having a young person out of the workforce for a couple years when the end result is training in a trade. They've been through decades of layoffs in those jobs during economic downturns and shifts, and they don't see that work as a stable path for the long term.[/quote]

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