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Re: U.S. Adds Only 88,000 Jobs; Jobless Rate Falls to 7.6%
Now where is your link to stats/facts that proves that the vast majority of those students did not go to college because they could not find work in the private sector? And that if they could have they would not have gone to college?
Of course school enrollment is up.
Unemployment is way up, the economy is stagnant and it has never been easier(?) to rack up massive student loans.
When the economy sucks - seniors retire prematurely and young adults go to college.
The decline in labor force participation among young men was from 75% in 1979 to just 57% in 2011. That 18-point drop is mirrored in data from the Department of Education showing that male school enrollment rates rose between 1980 and 2010. Enrollment rose by 20 points for 18- to 19-year-olds, and by 16 points for 20- to 22-year-olds. It also rose by 8 points among 16- to 17-year-olds and by 9 points among 22- to 24-year-olds. Averaging the rates across the four (roughly) equally-sized groups indicates that the school enrollment rate rose 13 points from 1980 to 2010, from 47% to 60 percent. There are, of course, many young men who simultaneously work and attend school, but the fraction of 18- to 24-year-old college enrollees (of either gender) who attended part-time was 20% in 1980 and 20% in 2010.
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Now where is your link to stats/facts that proves that the vast majority of those students did not go to college because they could not find work in the private sector? And that if they could have they would not have gone to college?
Of course school enrollment is up.
Unemployment is way up, the economy is stagnant and it has never been easier(?) to rack up massive student loans.
When the economy sucks - seniors retire prematurely and young adults go to college.