I totally agree with Veronica Lira's article and find myself in a
similar situation where I've had to work full time to pay for college and even
skip out on a couple semesters because the funds were not quite there. The
steady increase in tuition is definitely not helping, and things won’t get any
better unless some change is made. I want believe that a Master’s degree is not
going to be the requirement to make a decent living in the United States, but I
do see where you’re coming from in that more and more occupations are requiring
higher levels of education to for work. I feel that even a Bachelor’s degree
will not fail to propel people into the middle class, however, and after
obtaining one, continuing education may not be as much of a struggle.
There are scholarships and
government aid programs to help students, but I’m not confident that this is
enough. In fact, I think there are likely cases in which some students receive
a little too much aid that goes toward things that are not school related. One
of our peers actually wrote an article recently that suggests an alternative
that may help make education more affordable for everyone, “Free Education inAmerica,” check it out, it may interest you!
