Education shouldn’t be based on how much money you have, America is known as the land of the free, but how can it be called that if not everyone is given an equal chance to succeed? Even if everyone had a chance of success, that doesn’t mean everyone will succeed, America is about working hard to achieve success, but how can that be when money is the leading factor and if you are born into poverty, it is a handicap. Eskow asserts that “Education is in danger of becoming an inherited privilege...Most student aid is being directed to wealthier students, further exacerbating the educational inequality problem”. With a large amount of new qualified individuals in the workforce and a decline of those in the field due to age as most of them are baby boomers, there will be a demand for high qualifying jobs. However, …show more content…
I disagree with the fact that unauthorized immigrants are to blame for the lack of jobs, as they aren’t even allowed to work in jobs requiring degrees. If an individual with all the opportunities given to them manages to lose a job to someone less qualified, that is entirely up to them. Furthermore, Kugler asserts that employers are to blame in her article “Immigration Reform will Protect American Workers” stating “...unscrupulous employers use workers’ undocumented status to avoid compliance with employment laws and deter them from filing formal employment complaints with federal agencies.” This makes unauthorized immigrants easy targets, why bother with people who can actually do something about it? Unauthorized Immigrants settle for the low paying jobs as they face the largest barrier in terms of an education and a job as they are not legally allowed to work and aren’t eligible for federal