They've received scholarships, but financially strapped students can't always balance academics, athletics, and a job. ... Many argue that participating in college athletics is similar to holding a full time job, except without the financial benefits. ... Does this sound like a job to you? ... With the establishment of pay to players, many of the problems being reported today would be non-existent such as; illegal recruiting practices and payments under the table. ... Even though some say that the scholarships are enough, paying players would cut out the illegal contact between recru...

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Taking risks doesn't pay in the beginning as much as job at an established company and financial you are already weighed down by student loan responsibilities, so why bother taking the risks. ... The burden of debts are pushing the young to pick better paying jobs over jobs that they are passionate about. ... Okay, so by now you wonder, who is going to pay for all this debt free public education? ... It would pay teachers, maintain school campuses, pay for public transportation and the subway and other services like tutoring and meal plans. ... For example, if BMCC had a charity like, Inv...

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However, as high school graduate struggling to find a good paying job without a college degree, I came to see how important it is for high school students to be required to serve one school year involved in some type of community service. ... It would help them grow as individuals and they would learn the responsibility of having a job and completing the necessary job duties needed at their employment. ... It is very difficult to find a job without previous work history, it provides work experience so once they are out of high school they would have a good chance of getting a job. ... She wa...

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However, as high school graduate struggling to find a good paying job without a college degree, I came to see how important it is for high school students to be required to serve one school year involved in some type of community service. ... She would've been able to see if this job would be beneficial for her or not and then would be able to make a decision as to if she wants to further a career in that or if she wants to pursue another field. ... It is very difficult to find a job without previous work history, it provides work experience so once they are out of high school they wo...

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Most students leave college with enormous amounts of debt, graduate working a part time job paying minimum wage, and face other financial crisis. ​... It is true that in today's time, that the majority of jobs require a college education. ... According to 'Education Pays 2010: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society', "The 2008 poverty rate for bachelor's degree holders was 4%, compared to a 12% poverty rate for high school graduates" (Baum, Ma, & Pays, 2010). ... In addition, the majorities of these individuals who graduated college and have these d...

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Struggling to pay bills, searching for spare change to buy food, and never having enough money for anything are a common trait of countless college students. ... Many students upon graduating from high school have never experienced the demands of adulthood from living on their own, paying their own bills, or earning their own money. ... Because they do not have any educational conflicts, they are able to obtain better paying jobs or internships. Not only may the students use the money earned from their jobs to help pay college expenses, they are also capable of paying a variety of other ty...

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The other side of the story involves students paying the fee but end up with an overwhelming debt, hindering the students' future. ... The cost that students pay for college does not give the most benefit for the student. ... This statistical data represents that going to college and earning a bachelor's degree will not guarantee a job associated with a student's area of study. ... Despite the fact that these jobs do not offer a sufficient income, service and manual labor vocations are an integral part of society, ones that need to be filled. ... However, some claim that because...

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No matter what a person's job may be, the ability to converse intelligibly and communicate clearly is invaluable. ... Why do some people working in the same jobs earn higher wages than others earn? ... This increase is outside of and in addition to any merit increase or pay for performance. ... As opposed to learning a specific skill for a specific job, the skills a person acquires throughout the college experience, in addition to the actual college degree, can generally be applied to many different types of jobs. ... You pay for education once; you pay for ignorance everyday for the re...

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The net price (the cost after scholarships, grants and federal tax benefits) that in-state students at public colleges will pay in 2012 rose 4.6% to an average of $16,510. ... After graduating from college, they will receive a high enough salary in which they will be able to pay off any of their school loans. ... It is very clear that in such a diverse and competitive society that we live in today, college students must be able to receive the best education possible so that they can find a profitable job once they graduate and be able to live a high quality of life. ... Colleges are feeling mo...

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By pursuing a college degree, students can increase the number of job opportunities available to them. ... Not only will college graduates be more likely to have jobs, but they will make more money in that job than they would without their college degrees. ... With this substantial difference in pay, it is easy to see why one would prefer pursuing a college degree. ... Wayne Baker describes college graduates living, "healthier, longer lives...they continue [to] be productive and to pay taxes, contribute to Social Security, and so on.... Schapiro and company also cite statistics from Kru...

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A college education has become the minimum requirement for a great deal of jobs. ... " Philosophy does not scream job opportunities. ... This finding is unsurprising in an age that is increasingly focused on finding a job. People do not have the luxury to pursue knowledge for knowledge's sake, not when Americans have bills to pay and families to take care of. No longer are decent jobs available to those with only a high school diploma. ...

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Students pay tuition and can use financial aid for remedial courses, but cannot receive college credit and cannot be transferred. ... A number of them end up getting part time jobs due to their financial problems and most times this still is not enough for school expenses. In the journal, A Sense of Belonging: Improving Student Retention, the author, Patrick O'Keefe, stated that students who work part time and those working extended periods in low paying jobs are less inclined to see themselves as students and are more prone to dropping out (607). ... Nowadays, good jobs cannot be obtaine...

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Daniel, age 28 has over $40,000 in student loan debt, pays 24% of his monthly salary to student loans, and works in a job that doesnt require a college degree. ... One concern of those who argue that a college education is not worth it, is that many college graduates are employed in jobs that do not require a bachelors degree. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported that 44% of recent college graduates in 2012 were employed in jobs that did not require their college degree. ... By working part-time during on-track semesters and working full-time during the summer break, students can ...

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A college degree opens many horizons for job & financial opportunities. That college degree prepares you for the job market. ... Entering in a low paying occupation, dropouts should gradually pay back understudy credits, which is the reason school is so imperative to stick to and graduate once enlisted. The probability of understudies having the capacity to pay off understudy credits rapidly in the wake of graduating is much more prominent than the probability of a drop out paying off advances. ... The more cash an understudy pays for in educational cost, the more weight is applied on the unde...

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He went on to say that he plans to lower the cost of community college to zero to make earning an Associates degree free, similar to obtaining a high school diploma, implying that providing affordable education can lead to Americans being more skilled, and in turn taking on more high wage jobs. ... However I found there may have been a mixture of narrative genre because he discussed the three "categories" to form what middle class economics in our times requires; 1)helping working families make ends meet, 2)helping Americans upgrade their skills, and 3)keep providing high wage jobs ...

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What they tend to forget is that the ratio of graduates to employments opportunities is quite big, making the majority of the graduates be jobless or secure low paying jobs. ... To make it more challenging, it is evident that the cost of acquiring college studies has not been worth it for recent years since only a small percentage have succeeded in securing jobs to enable them to recover the fee spent in college. ... It is the entrepreneurs that create jobs for the degree holders, Bill Gates with his innovation Microsoft have employed thousands of graduates where some happened to be his colle...

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Today, as the job market becomes ever more competitive, college degrees are becoming ever more prejudicial in acquiring even entry-level positions. ... For the ones who are employed they are all working labor intensive, low-skill blue-collar jobs. ... This will stipend the need for students to leave school or not complete their education; it will also impress upon the student athletes the importance of education as it pertains to the job market, because let's face it, professional athletes consider themselves employed. Every high paying employer has specific requirements for hiring their ...

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Students who need more vocational training, job experience, and hands-on training. ... Currently, many employers are finding it increasingly difficult to find satisfactory employees: people who are motivated, who possess a strong work ethic, who pay attention to detail, who have the skills necessary to succeed, and who apply what they are taught. If schools worked with employers to provide on-the-job training opportunities for secondary students while the students were still in school, all parties would benefit. ... Not every citizen does the same job. ...

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Of course the achievement of a degree and the careers that go along with them are key factors but Andre Hacker and Claudia Dreifus did a fantastic job of breaking up details to support how college could be more valuable in the passage, Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admissions. ... In the first body paragraph the assertion is to engage all students and in the paragraph the authors do a great job on saying exactly what needs to happen for this to be achieved. ... That's when students begin to become bored and then they just sit in the class without any interest and barely paying attentio...

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She knew that to get a good job that paid decently that she had to further her education just as a man would, but she would not receive money from a college for her outstanding swimming, she had to pay for it herself. ... " (24) However, without a good education they would struggle to get a job that paid decently. This led her to push for the Equal Pay Act, which would not come easy. She proposed the idea of the Equal Pay Act in May 1955. ...

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Until the 1980s men exceeded women in undergraduate enrollment, but since then women have overtaken men in this aspect due to contributing factors such as altered perceptions of marriage, the rise of the women's liberation movement, an increase in women joining the labor force, men finding alternative jobs that don't require secondary schooling. ... Of the women that did work in the 1960s, 38%, were limited to jobs such as teachers, nurses, or secretaries, all gender based occupations, and were unwelcome in professional fields; making up only six percent of doctors, three percent of...

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The cost of attending a university could mean paying more than $10,000 a year. ... Some are forced to rely on a second job or find some type of financial aid to help assist them for these expenses. ... Each student is required to pay $18.00 per unit, and typically a course is between three and five units. Twelve units per semester are considered full-time, which means a full-time community college student pays only $216.00 for their courses. ...

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However, if the same idea were to be worded, women are more likely to go to college, and be prepared for higher paying jobs than men, this would personally affect all people as can be seen in the first article I read. ...

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Recently, people pay more attention to global world economy. ... Other countries' students study harder to get excellent marks because they need high grades when they seek jobs. ... Instead of this, they check what students spend college time doing; for instance, part time jobs, clubs or group activities and so on. ... They try to not only do part time jobs and extracurricular activities, but also take classes seriously because companies check their records. ...

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Society as a whole may also benefit from this outcome, lower welfare and healthcare costs now that the individual can afford to buy food, pay rent and has private health insurance without the governments assistance. ... Families can downgrade from four-year colleges to two-year colleges but this would not put the student on a level playing field for U.S jobs or help the U.S compete in the Global economy. ...

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