I attended the University of Nebraska during the 1970s; tuiton my first two years there was the equivalent of $10 per credit-hour.
At the time, the minimum wage was $2.00 per hour (no, this was not the 1920s either), meaning one had to work five hours in such a job, to pay for one credit hour of tuition.
As of this year, the University of Nebraska is charging tuition of circa $100 per credit hour (besides much more in fees).
The minimum wage is now $5.15 per hour.....meaning a current student there has to work nearly twenty hours in such a job, to pay for one credit hour of tuition.
(And no, the problem is NOT the minimum wage; the problem IS "empire-building" among administrators and academicians, driving up college costs faster than the general inflation.)
Yes, it is.
This is really true and student loans are a form of indentured servitude for the victims. What a bad deal..pay interest on tuition to hear Churchill rant,because, diversity studies is part of your requirements..ugh.
But we parents are letting it happen..paying and not regulating what your kids take in college.