Sentences with phrase «get college degrees»

So rather than make divorce harder for couples with small children, and rather than spend millions on promoting marriage as a way to get people out of poverty (which doesn't work, by the way), why not put that energy into helping people get college degrees?

People are taking out huge loans to get college degrees that, in many cases, don't qualify them for high paying jobs that would enable them to pay back their loans.

Governor Cuomo's plan to help prison inmates get college degrees has been heavily criticized by upstate lawmakers, especially Republicans.

This was all while my friends were all still at college trying to get their college degrees that they would never use and hold massive college debt!

It's more difficult for them to land good jobs, according to a study from the Pew Research Center, in spite of the fact that more millennials are getting college degrees than their parents did.

As Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and many entrepreneurs before them have proved, getting a college degree is definitely not a prerequisite for running a successful business.

«My wife got her G.E.D.,» says Bruce Foster, the lead man in the press department and die cut area, «and it ended up costing me 10 grand — because then she went back to get a college degree.»

«Today, getting a college degree isn't enough.

If getting a college degree or helping your spouse or child obtain one is part of your early retirement plan, you can avoid that withdrawal tax by rolling your 401k into an IRA.

I would love to see you go get a college degree (in something other than theology) so that you can get a high (er) paying job.

Of course «our» tax dollars and the welfare and he got college degree pay by us too everything free, but my kids pay student loans to go to college how sad the criminals get help and honest people don't, my kids work hard babysitting, delivering newspapers, washing cars, packing groceries, cutting grass oh that make me so proud of my kids!

It takes more than a decade to get a high school diploma; it takes an additional four years for most people to get a college degree; it takes nearly a quarter - century to become a great physician.

And these days, unless children from poor families get a college degree, their economic mobility is severely restricted: Young people who grow up in families in the lowest income quintile (with household income below about $ 21,500) and don't obtain a B.A. now have just a one in two chance of escaping that bottom economic bracket as adults.

They are less likely to finish high school or get a college degree.

And they offer this guarantee: «If your child is still in diapers when he makes the football team or gets her college degree, you can send him or her off to us for a weekend remedial course and ask for a refund of the cost of this book.»

«Senate Democratic proposals will ensure more of our students get a college degree without assuming crippling debt.

«I mean, do you want to send a message that «hey, it's better so you don't have any student loan debt, go commit a crime, get a sentence of three years and go ahead and have your tuition paid for and get a college degree».

A bill coming before the Suffolk County legislature would require county police, among other things, to get a college degree if they want a promotion above the rank of captain.

Another is Clarence Maclin, who got his college degree shortly before being paroled and now works as a supervisor at a nearby residential treatment program helping young people avoid the costly mistakes he made as a teenager.

But that's a false choice, because you're almost surely not going to get that college degree anyway.

Some of that gap can be explained by high school dropouts — kids who left school before twelfth grade and would not be expected to get a college degree.

We still are talking about the majority, when the president of Harvard spoke on my campus last week, she was saying, there's still a big gap between kids of color and upper middle class white kids, that the majority of upper middle class kids, the top quarter, the majority get a college degree.

They (and their parents) can get all the assistance they need to get that college degree — provided they gather enough information about the sources that could provide them with the required funds.

Even though more women and girls are getting college degrees and scoring in the top ranks on national math tests than was the case in the 1970s, their academic gains have not come at the expense of boys, says a report by the American Association of University Women.

We're either going to get to a place where many more people are getting college degrees, and where we've got real training to put people on a path to the middle class if they don't get a college degree, or we're going to have massive challenges in this country.

The tragedy is that only nine of 100 children living in poverty in this country in 2011 can expect to get a college degree.

As the first person in my family to get a college degree (and later a law degree so that I could go on to work as a civil rights attorney), I worked hard to get here and I make no apologies for wanting the best for my son.

The Steppingstone Academy and the College Success Academy prepare and support talented underserved students intent on getting their college degrees.

Over a 30 - year period, researchers followed two groups of children — one enrolled at the center; the other from randomly selected early childhood intervention programs — and found that those who took part in the center's field trips and focused reading and math instruction were more likely to get a college degree than their peers who did not.

The vast majority never get a college degree.

«Everybody knows that the best way to get ahead today is to get a college degree.

This spring, six years after the charter's first class graduated, 20 percent of their former students, all black boys, are projected to get a college degree.

Kind of like getting a college degree after a lifetime of learning, experience and success.

Like getting a college degree, saving enough money to go to a writers conference, or finishing that novel.

It was part of a family tradition that all the women get a college degree and are able to support themselves.

My first «boss» was a fine Welsh gentleman who had come to America to get his college degree and went on to get his doctorate in anatomy.

Although getting a college degree is a big dream for many Americans, 44 million walk away from school with student loan debt.

Now that you've got a college degree under your belt — and hopefully some gainful employment — there are a number of lessons to learn when it comes to the almighty dollar.

Clearly, getting a college degree has become more financially challenging than ever before.

The reality is the cost of getting a college degree is so high that a lot of graduates will be paying back student loans far into those supposed fat - and - happy years.

Many students have been told by well - meaning parents and teachers that getting a college degree is the ticket to a well paying job.

Nailor borrowed $ 35,000 to get a college degree in education.

But one of the ways we don't really talk about too often is the slow road through college — basically people who are working full time and trying to get their college degree as well.

Back in 1999 I moved from Brazil with a green card, in order to get my college degree in United States.

It's one of the ways that I paid for school — because I worked full time while getting my college degree.

Though getting a college degree is one of the best things people can do for themselves, it doesn't come without a price.

The costs of going to school add up quickly, and for many people, even though getting a college degree does eventually pay off, it may take a few years of working before they finally land a G.O.O.D. (get - out - of - debt) job with a livable salary.

From childhood, we are taught that the only way to success is to get a college degree.

I told him to go get a college degree.

In an article written for Forbes Magazine, George Leef, the director of research at the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, stated that Clinton's plan rest on two incorrect beliefs: «that the cost of attending is the main reason why many students from non-wealthy families don't graduate from college and that getting a college degree would be very beneficial to them.»