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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only kids who made it out of my dying rust belt town are the ones who went to college. The rest stayed behind and got addicted to opioids. Adventure, I guess. But one I would prefer my children skip. So 529s it is. [/quote]

I suspect you dont know this for sure, and are assuming that the ONLY two paths for your schoolmates were staying home or leaving for college.   People make a lot of assumptions about the paths that are taken to success. Most poor kids struggle to do well in college if they go immediately-- it can be more beneficial to wait a few years to gain maturity and independence.  [/quote]

Exactly. I’d wager that way more kids spend tens of thousands of dollars to attend a few years of college and drop out rather than those who attend trade schools and drop out.

And again arguing that more working class kids should attend trade schools is a talking point of Dems like Joe Biden and Tim Ryan. Everything isn’t bad because Tucker agrees with it. Grow up. [/quote]

Whats interesting is that as college rates have increased, SES mobility rates have decreased. So the evidence that this advice (go to college) should not be standard issue to every child is there for anyone willing to see it. But its heresy so most people wont.

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If true, this is a very interesting insight.  Any links for this?  Thanks.[/quote]

College enrollment rates have increased 195% since 1970, when 3.5% of the U.S. population were college students.  Source:

https://educationdata.org/college-enrollment-statistics#:~:text=College%20enrollment%20rates%20have%20increased,U.S.%20population%20were%20college%20students.

The decline in mobility, stagnation in wages, and increase in inequality is less straightforward, but well documented. Here's an article with graphs:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/aparnamathur/2018/07/16/the-u-s-does-poorly-on-yet-another-metric-of-economic-mobility/amp/

If you want to go down a fun rabbit hole, compare our economic mobility to countries that have expanded the trades vs university education, such as Germany. [/quote]

This! And this is actually a left wing, Union talking point but because the Democrats on here are Blue Dog corporatists they conflate anything that would materially benefit the working class with “MAGA/Tucker/etc” because this country’s politics are broken and no party represents the working class anymore.[/quote]

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