At the Colorado Department of Higher Education, we honor the opportunities in all pathways, whether students attend a college, group college, personal occupational college, an apprenticeship or serve in the army. That’s why this year we’re celebrating Decision Day on Friday, April 29, 2022. One in three college graduates had a job that solely required a highschool diploma or less, including more than sixteen,000 car parking zone attendants, eighty three,000 bartenders, and 115,000 janitors with bachelor’s levels. College graduates with jobs that do not require college degrees earn 30-40{d740f8d10f639dae526a69468a40c7861970667b71a54fcad379dd9e92a57476} much less per week than those who work in jobs requiring college levels. According to a 2011 Pew Research survey, 86{d740f8d10f639dae526a69468a40c7861970667b71a54fcad379dd9e92a57476} of school graduates believed college was an excellent personal investment.
As of Jan. 2013, the speed of default on pupil loans hit 15.1{d740f8d10f639dae526a69468a40c7861970667b71a54fcad379dd9e92a57476}–a practically 22{d740f8d10f639dae526a69468a40c7861970667b71a54fcad379dd9e92a57476} increase since 2007. According to the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, scholar loans are “beginning to have the identical effect” on the economy that the housing bubble and crash created. A 2011 Pew Research survey found that 57{d740f8d10f639dae526a69468a40c7861970667b71a54fcad379dd9e92a57476} of Americans felt greater education did not present students with good value compared to the money spent. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 44{d740f8d10f639dae526a69468a40c7861970667b71a54fcad379dd9e92a57476} of current college graduates were underemployed in 2012. More than 16,000 car parking zone attendants, eighty three,000 bartenders, one hundred fifteen,000 janitors and 15{d740f8d10f639dae526a69468a40c7861970667b71a54fcad379dd9e92a57476} of taxi drivers have bachelor’s degrees. 10{d740f8d10f639dae526a69468a40c7861970667b71a54fcad379dd9e92a57476} of scholars graduate with over $40,000 in debt and about 1{d740f8d10f639dae526a69468a40c7861970667b71a54fcad379dd9e92a57476} have $100,000 in debt.
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