Chapter 1521： Can't read the book?

"But have you ever thought, you have to sit in that position to be qualified to talk about change?"

Yang Cheng's vocal question did not cause Santander to hesitate or shock as expected. Obviously, he was not the first person to mention similar suggestions.

"My proposition will not change, my behavior will not change!" Santan's German language is unusually flat, but it is precisely behind this flatness that lies firmness!

Yang Cheng continued to persuade, but Santad brought the topic back to the pressure of the students.

"Now, nearly 70% of U.S. undergraduate graduates have huge debts when they leave school, with an average amount exceeding US$35,000.

One in eight graduates needs to repay more than $50,000 in "excellent student loans" after graduation, not counting the credit card debt left during school to make ends meet.

Obviously, those students who go to medical school, dental school, nursing school, or graduate school have more debt.

Before participating in the competition, I commissioned a university in Vertmont to conduct a special study. Although other types of personal debt have been decreasing year by year in recent years, student debt has been increasing.

At present, all 43.3 million students in the United States, including students, graduates, and undergraduates, have a total of more than 1.3 trillion US dollars in student loans, more than three times more than in 2004, and more than all credit cards and auto loans in the United States combined.

And among these 43.3 million people, more and more people will be burdened with student loan debts throughout their lives.

According to our statistics, Americans who are close to retirement are the group with the highest student loan debt, which soared from US$2.8 billion in 2005 to US$18.2 billion in 2013.

I still remember a gentleman I met at a speech rally in Nevada. He was 55 years old this year. He told us that he had been repaying student loans for the past 25 years, but after 25 years, his debts would be more than when he borrowed. . "

Yang Cheng listened quietly, Santander was very indifferent when it came to whether he could be on the throne.

But when it comes to the livelihood issues he cares about, the whole person becomes an angry young man, just like an ordinary young man complaining about social injustice!

But what can Yang Cheng do? It seems that he can't do anything on his own, and the only thing he can do is to send someone who can solve some of the problems to the place where he should sit, but others are unwilling to accept his own funding.

trouble! depressed! This is Yang Cheng's mood at this time.

Not only is there no way to solve the worldwide problem that Santad put forward, there is even no possibility of even a little alleviation.

What's worse than being poor is getting poorer and worse; what's worse than expensive is getting more and more expensive!

This is the problem facing all students studying in the United States, not only local students, but also foreign students.

Hope that the world will get better on its own is just as illusory as hoping to buy the first prize in the lottery. Not only will it not get better, the reality will get worse and worse.

In the United States, a student is likely to become a heavy burden for the entire family, and it is becoming heavier.

The reality is that the cost of higher education is steadily rising, and it is increasingly difficult for ordinary Americans to obtain the college education they want.

For more than 40 years, the tuition fees of four-year public universities have almost quadrupled even if inflation is included.

Tuition fees have risen by 60% in the past 10 years alone.

Despite the grim situation, the US ZF still failed to make corresponding measures, and even made the wrong choice.

The cost of going to university is steadily rising, but the per capita public education expenditure for students has been declining.

This situation has been going on for decades, and the Great Recession has worsened the situation. ZF everywhere has begun to drastically cut public university funding.

Since many of the governors’ campaign donations come from some large, wealthy companies, tax cuts for the rich have become a key task, and it is more important than allowing working-class students to get a college education. In other words, what the zheng customers need is votes. Who can give them? Whoever votes can get help.

This is also the most uncomfortable place in Santander!

He said, "In 1980, the state ZF subsidy for teaching costs was close to 80%, but now it is less than half.

In the United States, more than three-quarters of college students are enrolled in public universities. What does cut funding mean to them? "

Yang Cheng stretched out his hands and replied helplessly, "It means that for these students and their parents, regardless of the fact that wages have stagnated for decades, they must also bear the soaring university expenses."

Santander pressed the table and said, "That's right! 40 years ago, education expenditures for public universities only accounted for 4% of the family's annual income, but now they account for 15%.

In 40, even 30 years ago, students could earn a full year of college tuition as long as they did full-time summer part-time jobs and held the minimum wage at that time.

Nowadays, students with minimum wages need to work for a whole year to save all the money before they have enough funds to pay for public universities in the state.

But you and I all know that the minimum wage is difficult even for living, let alone a surplus.

This has formed a vicious circle Many children from low-income families need to work while going to school, sometimes in addition to class, study and unpaid internships, they have to take on more than one job.

Imagine that when they are preparing for the final exams, they also have to attend the evening shift at McDonald’s. You can imagine how their grades will be. A simple estimate is that, apart from studying, college students spend 30-40 hours a week for part-time work. Hours means that they spend half of their study time less than students who do not need to work.

Excluding geniuses, can ordinary people spend less than half of their study time and get the same grades? "

Yang Cheng opened his mouth. He wanted to say yes, but thinking of his experience in university, he couldn't say this.

In recent years, there has been a strange phenomenon. In the past, the top students of every university were generally from low-income families, because reading is their only way out. Only by getting good grades in school can they change their lives!

Now, the top ones are often students who were born in middle-class families and don’t need to worry about tuition and living expenses, and many even come from rich families, because they have higher education requirements for their children and waste time without having to go out to work. Under the circumstance, all energy is used in reading, and the results can be imagined.

And those students who need to go out to work to earn tuition fees can only barely get a graduation certificate, and cannot get a recommendation letter from a tutor, so they are not eligible to enter a large company for internship, cannot get a high salary, cannot pay off their student loans, and are under debt pressure. Forcing them to do physical work, at least how many jobs can be used to make money and pay off their debts.

Just a little bit, they are getting further and further away from the path of life-changing, and eventually they even become street tramps. This is the most real and cruel aspect of American society.

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