Today may be different because of the job market, but when I went to school my friends and I all worked. I had to borrow for part of my last year’s tuition, and when I was asked if I wanted to start paying after graduation I stated that wouldn’t be necessary - I was working full-time while going to school full-time. A year after graduation I didn’t owe anything to anyone.
I don’t know how schools are staying open now, with so many fewer job opportunities for students and such dim prospects when they finally do graduate.
How many Americanized teenagers do you see working service industry jobs in Kearny? Those jobs still exist, the workforce has changed.
NJ didn’t really create a single private industry job for 11 years, yet the state had almost a half million more residents.
The economy and employment situations in States like NJ/NY/CA/IL are really broken, and now after 10 years of NJ not creating any private industry jobs in net, we’re looking at another decade of no growth.
Will we see the state population rise another 450,000 in this decade? Who knows, cause they surely won’t be working if they move here.