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'Free College For All' By Anya Kamentz

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There is no better way to have a well-being future than having a quality education. United States has provided us with different colleges for education for those who want a successful future. Colleges have helped students improve in their education throughout the years and also has made kids get jobs they have been wanting for their whole lives. College kids have experienced wide ranges of activities in colleges and have opportunities to explore different subjects or courses. College helps students develop into mature, responsible, and independent adults. And it also helps you build knowledge, skills and brainpower and may also get to learn more about yourself. But some people may not have the ability to have all that because of money. Colleges …show more content…

Until World War II, college was also pretty sparsely attended. In 1940, only about 5 percent of the population, most of them white men, had a bachelor's degree. And the U.S. was the most educated nation in the world! The small numbers made tuition relatively cheap to subsidize.” Where it stated U.S. was the most educated. But then the U.S. decided free colleges are not right and they changed the way colleges used to be in 1940 like it mentions in the article “Free College for All” by Anya Kamentz in mentions “Starting in the 1970s, there was a backlash to all this free money. In the economic slump, federal and state subsidies to higher education tightened. Enrollments declined. Loans, which were cheaper for the government, began to replace grants.” this means that throughout the years education increased in a higher rate of money starting from 1970-2016. So more people had a lesser chance to go to college and pay for all the …show more content…

Those who don't have the money to pay for the colleges even the most cheapest college should have the opportunity to go to a free college and feel successful in their future. It states in the article that “Talented students are forgoing college because of the costs, students who start college are unable to complete because they cannot afford to continue, and even students who finish degrees may not realize all of the expected returns because of sizable debt burdens.” This means that the talented who may even rise up to become something good and help our country in the future can’t even afford to pay for the cost. In another text it mentioned that “The success rate in college for the lowest-achieving but highest-income students is slightly better than the success rate for the highest-achieving, lowest-income students.” Which means those who might have good grades cant even join their college and people who can might not be as smart. Instead of increasing the cost of college people should increase the rate of people going to college before the United States decreases it rate of most educated in the

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