Sentences with phrase «sending a kid to college only»

A down - turned economy and recent changes to financial aid requirements that now require parents to cover a larger portion of the costs of sending a kid to college only exacerbate the predicament.

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Some argue that cutting tuition only benefits well - off families because they're the only ones who can afford to send their kids to university or college.

Build business, employ workers, improve skillsets so that people can become self - sufficient and more productive, grow the business, hire more people, teach them to save (not impulse buy $ 1000 rims or whatever the Jones» have)... not only will they actually be able to afford healthcare w / o public subsidy, but they will also be able to save money in order to send their kids to college to become doctors.

«We had a district sending only 23 percent of its kids to college, and we determined that for the other 77 percent of the kids, we needed to do something to make their lives meaningful,» explains Brunelle.

Only 11 percent of our residents have college degrees, and in 1995 we sent only 39 percent of our kids on to education after high schOnly 11 percent of our residents have college degrees, and in 1995 we sent only 39 percent of our kids on to education after high schonly 39 percent of our kids on to education after high school.

This situation is not only a sad outgrowth of America's socioeconomic divide but also a huge problem for universities and employers, considering that birthrates are flat or down among the affluent white suburban families that have traditionally sent their kids to college.

(Only high - income mostly white suburban high schools send more kids to college with 73 percent of the students enrolled in college in the fall).

Ebony wrote about architects and artists, the share cropper who sent his nine kids to college, real African Americans at a time when everyone else only covered them as entertainers and athletes.»