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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's the problem with the suggestion? I don't understand. [/quote]

Once upon a time I would have agreed. The cost of living is just too high now to work your way up. When I graduated from college 25 years ago with my bachelor’s, I worked retail for $11/hr for 6 months. Then my first professional job started at $22,000. It was tight, but I was able to get by ok. I had a reliable car that I paid $1,000 cash for. My 1 bedroom apartment was $425/month. I had no debt because tuition at the small college I went to was about $2000. I recently looked into this when my daughter was looking for an apartment. 
That same apartment is now $1100/month. 
The retail job I worked still starts out at $11. 
That first professional job I got out of college now requires a Master’s and 15-20 years of experience at pays $30,000. As far as I can tell, there are no entry level positions in that field. 
Tuition at my college is now $14k.

The math just ain't mathin’. We have made it nearly impossible for college grads to work their way up. [/quote]

College grads can still share apartments - or rooms - if they want to. They grew up with a higher standard of living and don't want to slum the way we did after finishing college.

Not to say things haven't gotten more expensive. They have - vastly. But I once lived in a four room apartment with nine people because we all wanted to live in an expensive city and none of us was earning very much. Even in my 30s, I lived in a group house in Columbia Heights for a while. Those things are still possible.

And as much as I LOATHE the far right griftosphere - I guess I'm not sure what's wrong with telling people that they can earn some money working at a restaurant, and that there are advancement opportunities there. I guess the subtext is that all the people who hate this think they and their kids are too good for that?[/quote]

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