Tuesday, September 29, 2009

College degree is worth the cost of increased compensation, quality of life

The average wage in 2007 for a person with a high school diploma was $ 33,600. For someone with a college education but no degree, the average was $ 39,100. For a person with an associate degree, the average salary was $ 41,400, and for a person with a bachelor's degree was $ 59,400. For someone who had gone to get a master's degree, the average wage in 2007 was $ 70,000.

Alan Richard, a spokesman for the Regional Education Board, the South has said recently, these data help to demonstrate that "the proof is in pouding''quand is to determine whether, like the United States, today called the recent articles, a degree is worth it, especially in a recession.
The newspaper spoke of a woman of 26 who was not eligible for financial aid and student loans, graduated in 2005 with a major in journalism and anthropology and more than $ 80,000 in debt.

Her loan payments are manageable until this year when he lost his job as an information technology recruiter and earned about $ 100,000. Time to work independently and to delay payments of your loan.

"So far I have not seen the full value of my education,''she was quoted as saying.

The question of college down to who you are and what you do with your life. A college education is important for some people, but also training. Take a look at electricians, plumbers, cobblers air conditioning and even some nurses.

"They do a darn lot of money, but these jobs require specialized training,''said Richard, whose 16-State Board, based in Atlanta, provides education and government leaders to work together to improve social and economic life of the region. In a book of information on higher education in the region published in June, the Council says that the percentage of adults with Bachelor's level or higher has increased since 2000 at national level and in every SREB state. In 2007, 22 percent of adults 25 years and older were Tennessee Bachelor's level or higher, compared with 20 percent in 2000.

"The SREB States faces a major challenge to help students more fully with a university degree,''Council President Dave Spence said in June ... College is less affordable for most families, and we must help students complete degrees more if our countries must continue to grow and prosper.''

This is the key. "Tennessee and all the southern states are more people with four degrees, two years of specialized vocational training, and grays,''Mr. Richard." Higher education is the key to a better paid job, particularly in difficult economic conditions.''

Higher levels of education represent better opportunities for us all and a better quality of life of citizens when it comes to things like health care. Moreover, the rates of incarceration and crime rates are associated with lack of education. Member when a payment like Tennessee to see people have higher incomes and can contribute more to the tax base. This is also why a degree is worthwhile, even in times of recession

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