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    Community college has traditionally been the cheaper route for students who cannot afford to pay thousands of dollars for a university or private college. Journalist, senators, and recent president Barak Obama are taking it one step further by proposing the first two years of community college be free. The positives, of course, being able to provide more of an opportunity for those financially struggling to earn a degree. In today’s world, most good-paying careers require more than just a high school

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    Do you know anyone who would like to go to college and get a degree and then get a good job to do their part for society but they can’t because they do not have the money to pay for college? Today in 2017 in-state tuition for the university of KY is $6,626 per semester for an undergraduate, and that includes the tuition and fees plus books and supplies. Out of state tuition for the university of KY is $30,928 per semester and that includes your books and supplies, tuition and fees plus your living

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    this society, many people get paid for services rendered who normally would not receive pay. One of the great debates has been whether or not college athletes should be paid. Some feel college athletes should be paid and others believe they should not. College athletes should not be compensated because many athletes already receive scholarships to attend college; they receive goods and services that money would otherwise purchase, and non-athletes who are learning professions at the same university

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    on whether or not student athletes should receive money for the sport they play. For sports fans, this issue can turn into a heated debate. In some circumstances, certain people believe that student athletes already have enough privileges. To the latter group of individuals, student athletes do not get enough and should get money for the sport they play. As a matter of fact, most college athletes will probably tell you that they should be. Student athletes should be paid for their sport. Most fans

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    Benefits Of Free College

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    Free College Why does college cost so much? Since the 1980’s the cost of college has sky-rocketed. The average college tuition for one year at a public college is nine thousand dollars a year. Which is in total 36 thousand for a four year degree at a public college. This raise in college tuition is not solely due to inflation but among many other things as well, things like new technology and increased college spending. College is becoming or is already too much money for some family’s with the

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    College tuition for a two-year college should be free because free tuition will help low income students, shared responsibility is needed, and a well-educated workforce will save money in the long run. The other state is free college because the parent can’t work on the job. Some people help them to going the free education for college. The parent must be care full to take care they own children. In addition, the next generation will be better than we in the high level will to apart education. Some

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    paying college athletes is to say college athletics is a large business. Supporters say that college athletes should be paid because the extremely large organization known as the NCAA is making lucrative amounts of money off of them, and what they do is considered a business (Frederick, 2013). They argue that the extreme amounts of money the NCAA earns from these athletes is too much, and that they can afford to compensate the athletes for the large amount of money they generate. College athletes

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    piece of paper away from him, as if it had assaulted him. I knew at that moment I wasn’t going to my dream college. “Maybe I can just put college off for a year?” I asked timidly. “No”, my father said firmly. “You need to go to college. Having a degree makes life easier, so you need to do it.” As I finished my first year at my second choice college, that statement my dad made bothered me. If college is so mandatory for success, why is it so difficult for middle and lower class individuals to receive this

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    Higher education through colleges and universities has been going on for hundreds of years and can be dated back to ancient Greece. In the United States, it was long the second option for those wanted more knowledge and a better paying job. In recent years it has become increasingly more expensive, and more necessary to make a living wage. This has raised the question of whether or not college should be free. While current system for college payment is flawed in many ways, eliminating its costs would

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    Access to free public education was first addressed by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877. Hayes did not scrutinize based on a family’s economic standing. A child of a poor family benefitting from free stuff was not his concern, nor did he believe that the wealth of a the family should exclude a child from the program. Hayes simply believed, education was the basis for full political and economic participation, and full participation was the basis for a prosperous economy. Therefore, education

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