Dreams Deterred: How Federal Policies Keep the Poor Out of College
Silvera, the problem is that many, if not most, college educations qualify the new graduate for jobs that pay less than the job at the local hair place. Journalism pays less. Social work pays less. Useless degrees like “race/class/gender studies” and “physical education” pay less and barely qualify graduates to work at McDonalds while paying off their massive student loans. College educations that pay more, such as information technology programs, do not really require a college to provide them. I went to a top-notch college myself, and while I taught myself how to write well when there, that never got me a job or a raise. What got me jobs and raises were hard work and long hours. The students who understood this during college spent all their time studying in the Library. I didn’t learn it until after.
