The article A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of
College, by Martin and Lehran, exposes a shocking but absolute truth about
the rising average of student debt. Sharing statistics and stories regarding
the crippling debt that modern day students find themselves inheriting before
even receiving their bachelor’s degree. For example, 23 year old Kelsey Griffith,
a Ohio native, will graduate from Ohio Northern University with a hefty 120,000
dollar debt. Statistics and stories like these truly do question the worth of a
modern day college degree, something that almost seems a necessity looking into
the future. Economists and your local soccer mom all agree that the only thing
worse than graduating in a heap of debt is not pursuing a college degree at
all. Over the years, a college degree has proven to be a pivotal component to achieving
the ever glorious “American Dream.” Although Martin and Lehran serve up an
important issue that student loan debt in America has become a growing problem,
the measure of importance of a college degree outweighs the burden of a mere
fraction of what a college graduate will earn in their lifetime.
The second article of the packet, “Millennials Didn’t
Abandon Our Institutions - Our Institutions Failed Them”, by Joshua Holland, is
about the millennial generation (those born in between 1980-2000) and how our
generation has become so untrustworthy of our government and religion as a
whole. How can we show regard for our government when they continue to spend
billions on our military and yet back home on our own soil the achievement gap
between the rich and the poor widen solely because of our lack of funding for
education. After reading these articles, it has become clear to me that the so
called “American Dream” that lured our ancestors to the states, is steadily
becoming less possible to achieve.
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