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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What if we just go back to funding our colleges like we used to?[/quote]
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-1 not supporting that unless you mean public institutions only.

And, op, what you describe is available at community colleges. [/quote]

But many community colleges do not offer degrees bachelors degree, which are required for an enormous number of careers.

You should not need to be able to afford (or go deep into debt) to get the kinds of jobs that now require a 4-year degree (sometimes even a masters). We're talking about civil engineers, librarians, marketing/communications professionals, etc. These are necessary jobs and we needs smart people in them. But most of these jobs don't pay more than 80-90k, and entry level you're talking 50k or less. And that's in a big city -- a municipal civil engineer or librarian in a small town in the Midwest is probably topping out at 60k. But those jobs still require 4 year degrees or more.

We either have to alter what it means to be qualified for certain jobs, or find a way to help people get the required training for these careers without taking on a ton of debt. That masters degree requirement for a lot of jobs ia particularly egregious because even one year of graduate school at a public school can mean 20k of debt. And that's literally just to get your foot in the door for some of these jobs. It's ridiculous.

We need to address college costs AND credentialism. There's a reason a lot of people are pursuing 4-year degrees and graduate school and it's not because they don't want to work -- it's because they DO want to work.[/quote]

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