Problems In The Article: Is College Worth It?

In the United States there are about 5,000 colleges and over ten million students attending college. The average college student graduates with some leave or form of debt. The 2010 Census Bureau found that college graduates make an estimated $20,000 more a year. However, with all of this being said most college students have already dug a hole for themselves that they will never be able to get out of, even if they file for bankruptcy. Why are these issues not being addressed? Millions of people are being affected by the continually increasing tuition prices, but how many people does it need to affect before a solution is found. If the government would invest more money into education then that would not only help the individuals attending

In the article, “Is College Worth It?” one nationality of individuals are more likely not to attend college and those individuals are Hispanic. Two-thirds of Hispanic college age people are not attending college, while comparatively only forty-seven percent of African Americans and forty-five percent Caucasian individuals of the same age. The study that produced these results also revealed that there is a correlation between low-income households and those individuals not attending college. Fifty-nine percent of individuals that came from a household with an income lower than $30,000 under the age of thirty that participated in the study do not have degrees and are not currently attending college. However, that number decreases to thirty-five percent of the same age group when coming from a household that made at least $90,000 (Adam 61). The article written by Michelle Adam called “Who can Afford to Pay for College” is based off of an editorial that was written by Thomas Mortenson. Adam quotes Mortenson saying, “Since the late 1970s, the Bachelor’s Degree attainment rate by age twenty-four has increased by thirty percent for those from the family income quartile, but has not increased at all for those from the bottom family income quartile.” By the age of twenty-four statistics found that individuals from a household income of less than about $35,000 only had a six percent attainment rate. To further prove the equality in education, the statistics showed that there is a direct relationship between increasing household income and the attainment rate of Bachelor Degrees. The rate increases to 12.7 percent on to 26.8 percent and the top income tier had an attainment rate of 51.3 percent (Adam