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In reply to the discussion: Why young people are right about Hillary Clinton [View all]passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)It's only since it's become so unafordable that kids are leaving college with a degree that doesn't often help them get a job, and a debt that will cripple them for the first third to half of their working adult life, that we have been slipping behind other countries on education. Part of the education cost is also affecting medical cost and dental cost, as students there come out of school with such enormous college debt, they have to charge a lot more for services than they should.
Your anecdote of having to earn your way through college cannot compare to what young kids facing college today have to deal with.
I too worked a full time job and went to school nights (part time) so I wouldn't leave school loaded in debt. And that was at a time when tuition was almost free and total costs were very low (in the 80's). That is no longer possible with today's college prices.