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            1. "just 51 percent of Gen Z teens are now considering a four-year degree, according to a survey this year by the nonprofit ECMC Group—a 20-point drop since May 2020" newsweek.com/2022/10/07/generation-covid-record-numbers-youth-opt-out-college-work-1746793.html
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          1. …in reply to @Chronotope
            I look at this and see a country and institutions unwilling to provide safety to COVID-concerned students, a nation that would rather see huge debt saddled on students than any attempt to make college more affordable, and a market that is effectively anti-labor.
        1. …in reply to @Chronotope
          Extremely difficult to change this in midst of a country telling Gen Z that they shouldn't have labor protections, should risk permanent disability to bag groceries, that their requests for bodily autonomy and basic respect of their identity is too much to attempt.
      1. …in reply to @Chronotope
        How can one argue for Gen-Z's participation in a system of expensive higher education and cheap labor that seems interested in little more than squeezing them dry until they are too sick, too poor, or both, to even exist in the view of American culture?
    1. …in reply to @Chronotope
      "At about a third of the nation's colleges, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, a majority of students end up earning less than the typical high school graduate 10 years later." newsweek.com/2022/10/07/generation-covid-record-numbers-youth-opt-out-college-work-1746793.html
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  1. …in reply to @Chronotope
    "Student debt, meanwhile, averages $26,100 for graduates of four-year public universities and $16,800 for public two-year colleges, according to the Department of Education." Over $15,000 of debt for a public two-year college is a crime.
    1. …in reply to @Chronotope
      It was inevitable that at some point young people would look at the bill America has chosen to stick them with and say, 'no, it's too much, this shouldn't be on me'. That time is now and they're right.


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