From $500 to $5000: Millennials are watching monthly student loan payments skyrocket funder Donald Trump
fortune.com
This will 'crash the economy,’ one borrower has warned.
  • cheers_queers@lemm.eeEnglish
    71·
    10 days ago

    learning a trade should be more encouraged, you can make a shit ton of money (relatively) without the debt

    • Suite404@lemmy.world
      6·
      10 days ago

      True, but that isn’t an option for everyone and we still need scientists and doctors and such.

      • cheers_queers@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        10 days ago

        oh i know but college shouldn’t be the default. i work in elementary and they have college posters up in the halls.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 days ago

      True, but that might take you 10 years to get to a point where you’re no longer the new person and have skills to back it up.

      • cheers_queers@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        10 days ago

        that goes for any skilled labor. doesn’t make what i said any less true.

        also, there are paid apprenticeships with unions if you look.