I'm concerned that, at the rate we're going, there might not be an educated third generation, let alone a seventh. The cost of Higher Education has gotten absurdly high, while learning in itself has not improved and the number of administrators keeps increasing. I know too many young people who have advanced degrees and are underemployed. Also, many (including some of the educators of our grandchildren) have full-time jobs, but are paid so little and owe so much money for their education, that they cannot afford to buy a house, let alone to have children of their own!
I think that we should enable young people to afford the economic future that we have helped to bequeath to them. Let's begin by forgiving the debt that they owe to our government. After all, they are the people that the Declaration of Independence
once addressed, as are we.
Why is this important?
My daughter has two advanced degrees from prestigious universities, many other skills, but is still under-employed. She has so much debt that she must lived at home for now. (She’d love a good full-time job that would pay for living expenses and health insurance. We are paying for the health insurance at this time – which she found through the marketplace.)
It is worth it in so many ways, including economically, to invest in our future, by having the government forgive educational debt at this time.
