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Why College in America is Broken [And What You Can Do About It]

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The Minimum Wage

In 19 78, a student earning the minimum wage would need to work 15 and a half hours per week to pay for college. That's a part time job. It's less than half of a full time work week. Now, 20 21, a student earns the minimum wage at the time of seven 25 would 7 dollars 25 cents,. Would need to work 60 hours a week to payForCollege. Even pushing it up to ten dollars an hour still worked out to be over forty. Three hours a week. You would have to work in full time, which is impossible because i can't imagine working a full time job and then doing a full load at college. For younger people right now

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