One more thought on Occupy Protests

[leora]

I was thinking about these protests, and I was thinking about how it doesn't quite surprise me, because it seems so in-character for the younger generation. There are various reasons, certainly as this article alludes to, you're going to get a reaction if you screw over a whole lot of well-educated people. But this also seems like exactly the sort

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Look to the colleges too

[beth_leonard]

A friend pointed me at this article which includes, "Take a look at We Are the 99 Percent - a website on which protest sympathizers share their tales of economic hardship. Very few of them mention banks, or even bank bailouts. The vast majority of them, however, do mention college debt

Re: Look to the colleges too

[leora]

*nods* I've read a few articles mentioning problems with education, about how the price has substantially increased. And I think part of the problem is also that a lot of jobs will outright list you need a college degree to be considered, even in jobs where I really don't think you need a college degree to be qualified. Often having a degree in anything, even something totally unrelated to the job, will get you a chance at a job where no degree will not. The job market requiring degrees unnecessarily makes it important for a lot of people to get a college education, even if it otherwise wouldn't be the best option for them. And it also means people end up stuck going to college, getting into debt, and then the job options are still hard - it's just often even worse without that