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The Debate on Whether America’s Best Days Are Past, or Ahead

• orionblastar 11y ago
  We can still get the best days back. If we can help those who can't afford an education to get a free or discounted education in order to get the good paying jobs. In the old days a college degree was not required for a lot of jobs, and all a person had to do was show up for work and get trained to do it. These days a bachelors is required for entry level work and they screen people out by education and where they went to college. As websites, AI programs, robots automate jobs there grows a demand for technology workers, while less skilled jobs vanish because they are now automated. Technology changes so fast that what I knew in 2002 is outdated in 2016 and keeps on changing so there is a constant learning cycle to keep up with technology. The cost of a college education has gone up over time as well. Many find themselves with a high student loan and if they can't find work they struggle to try and pay it off with a minimum wage job. Even worse in order to live on campus they must have saved up money by working before going to college and student loans cover tuition and not books and room and board and meals.