Scholarships aren't available to everyone and often times they don't even begin to cover the runaway costs.
Loans . . . well, that's exactly the problem highlighted in the meme. Long term, loans cost the borrower more than his/her potential salary's monthly ability to pay when cost of living is factored in (notice I said "potential"
. Seen the job "growth" in the last 13 years? What about inflation-adjusted wages? Pathetic on both counts. In the long run, the ROI just isn't there. You'd be better off just paying cash as you go, which is an impossibility @ 10.10 an hour.
I'm struggling to pay for a kid's college costs now. Just imagine if (God Forbid) either one of us had to go back to school. It's not even in the realm of reality, and I'm not exactly a pauper. I can't even imagine how someone's supposed to "supersize their skill set" making minimum wage . . . maybe that was possible in 1991, but certainly not now.
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