After attending private school for my entire life, I have seen that tuition plays a large role in determining someone’s financial situation. With tuitions rising every year, this widens the gap between the upper class and the lower class, forcing the working class to work harder than they already do in hopes of earning a degree.

With college degrees being advertised as a cure for financial instability, there is a twist that is not observed. As one struggles to pay for tuition, hoping that one day they will get paid a lot more, they end up falling deeper into debt because of how much this degree costs. The cost of a college degree does not match the value it has in the long-run. If one can earn a degree without taking on more debt than they expect to make in their first year of work, then I would suggest that they still go for a degree. For the rest of us who expect to pay for most of tuition using loans, I would evaluate other options. However, I think there could be a solution to this problem.

If most college tuitions were lowered using tax dollars, we would be able to send more people to college and America would be able to develop further in more areas than they currently do. Although many don’t want their tax dollars to go to these areas, it would benefit our country as a whole. Another possible solution would be if large corporations helped their employees pay for college. These huge corporations and name-brand companies have so much money that, if they dedicated even 2% of their cashflow to providing scholarships for employees, then more people would begin working for the companies and we would have more people able to go to college. This is a win-win situation. Helping lower-class students go to college would improve our country and bring the social classes closer together.

Those are my Thoughts for Food.