A college degree once all but guaranteed a well-paying job and higher earnings than high school graduates. But fewer of these good jobs are now available thanks to the long-term economic changes and the effects of the last recession.<\/p>\n
People with college and advanced degrees are working jobs that don’t require them, whether by choice or necessity. That in turn pushes people without college degrees out of those jobs.<\/p>\n
The number of college graduates has grown much faster than the number of jobs that require high-level education skills. As more college graduates flood the market, supply outweighs demand and employers are able to offer lower wages.<\/p>\n
Because college is so expensive, many students are facing a dilemma: If they go to college, they still might not get a job that requires a college degree, and they’ll be on the hook for big student loan payments. But if they don’t go to college, they might be pushed out of entry-level jobs by overqualified college graduates who can’t find other work.<\/p>\n
Under the current economic climate high school graduates should not only be asking themselves if they can afford to go to college but also if they can afford not<\/strong> to?<\/p>\n GPA Calculator News Source: continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A college degree once all but guaranteed a well-paying job and higher earnings than high school graduates. But fewer of these good jobs are now available thanks to the long-term economic changes and the effects of the last recession. People with college and advanced degrees are working jobs that don’t require them, whether by choice … Continue reading The College Dilemma<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,389,534,36],"class_list":["post-6422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gpa-news","tag-college","tag-degree","tag-high-school","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6533,"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions\/6533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}