There are a number of steps that could help, from eliminating the marriage penalties in many of our means-tested policies to strengthening apprenticeship programs that can improve the job prospects and economic fortunes of young adults who aren't college bound.
The education cost would be far higher if college were included, even accounting for children who don't attend college, pay for it themselves or attend low-priced institutions.
If they don't see college as a real option they are even more likely to dropout.
Those with nothing include about 4 in 10 who are non-white, are unmarried or didn't finish college.
But in too many schools, teachers don't have college majors -- or even minors -- in the subjects they teach.
Why couldn't every college do this, at no cost to taxpayers?
Or what about the fact that the president's reform proposal would mean that a young person can be covered up until the age of 26 by a parent's plan, rather than the current limit of 19 for those who don't attend college?
You can't have kids coming out of college, half of whom can't find a job today, or a job that's commensurate with their college degree.
You can't judge a college football coach, yay or nay, based on one season.
Apparently, Americans are ok running and playing basketball in those old ratty college t-shirts longer than others are.
Right now, someone who doesn't have a college degree is more than twice as likely to be unemployed as someone who does.
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If your kid doesn't go to college or if you overfund the plan, you may be hit with a penalty plus taxes on any earnings.
Changing internships from the exposure-audition model to a minimum-wage model may serve labor activists, but it won't serve ambitious college students or the companies seeking them.
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Now, I did receive a little bit of heat, I know, from maybe some in this room, when I said that folks shouldn't blow their college savings in Vegas.
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Mr. Taya, 33 years old, didn't go to college, but took technical training courses, first by correspondence in Jordan and then by going to Canada and China to learn how to maintain pieces of equipment.
Though, I don't see the point of going to college if you don't take art history.
"Young adults often lose coverage if they don't go on to college, " she said.
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For the soldiers, it's a job fair where they aren't up against recent college graduates in three-piece suits.
If there wasn't a playoff in college basketball, Butler would have never been able to advance to the finals last year.
Let's be clear: They didn't get married in college, but the hard work of balancing two careers in flux can work out.
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His mother couldn't afford to pay college tuition, so he landed an engineering scholarship at West Virginia Institute of Technology, later receiving a master's degree from Princeton University.
"When I started long ago, women weren't coming out of college and choosing to work in professional sports, and now that's changed, " says Valerie Arcuri , who retired last month as the Indians' vice president of marketing and broadcasting.
Likewise, buying a health-insurance policy from a college generally isn't a qualified expense but a parent might have an argument if the college requires all students to have coverage as a condition of enrollment, says Andrea Feirstein, managing director at AKF Consulting Group, which advises states that administer 529s.
We had bipartisan support on college costs, but we didn't have the Republican leadership's support on college costs.
And I know in certain areas that students aren't led to go to college.
It's important to note that CheckLight isn't just for pro and college athletes, either.
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