What would the United States have to do to make college less expensive?
It is a multi-fold problem.By guaranteeing Pell grants to low income US students and Federal loans to all other US students, the Federal government has encouraged the elite Private universities to wallow at the Federal trough and suck up that money allowing them to raise total cost, and of course the State Public universities will do the same thing.That is then extenuated by the expectations of the students and their parents. Those parents and students (majority) believe they are Entitled to the most well equipped university campuses possible and they encourage the campuses to spend money and that money comes from the next round of paying students.Finally, there is the Federally guaranteed student loans. Students with no credit can borrow from banks and the Feds will not allow bankruptcy to wipe out any student loan. Bingo, the banks and loan companies will wallow at that trough of money as well.However, the die is cast and the total cost is the total cost and it won’t drop. They key now is to get the total cost to rise Less than inflation rate over the next 20 years……
The total cost of going to college is best measure by the?
e. income forgone by not working, plus tuition & books This is because in economics, cost is defined as opportunity cost. Opportunity cost is both explicit costs (tuition & books) and the implicit costs (income forgone).
What is the total amount spent per year on university tuition in the United States?
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports that, for the 2010–2011 academic year, the average annual undergraduate tuition, room, and board for a public institution $13,564 in current dollars. For private institutions, it totals to $32,026 in annual current dollars.Tuition data: Fast FactsNCES also reports in the 40th edition of its Projections of Education Statistics that during the same academic year, 15,143,000 students were enrolled in public institutions, and 5,873,000 in private institutions. (See Table 20.)Enrollment data: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2013/2013...Simple multiplications result in $205.4 billion spent for public institutions and $188.1 billion for private institutions, for a total of $393.5 billion in the 2010–2011 academic year in current dollars.
I need a student loan for college, but I'm only seventeen and can't find a lender. What should I do?
Go to FAFSA.gov and fill out the FAFSA form. Also many banks offer what is called a PLUS Loan. The PLUS loan is a loan that parents can take out for college students. You may be able to make a deal with your parents and agree to pay the loan. Also, I would advise you to sign up for Fastweb.com this is an internet site that qualifies you for scholarships and you can apply to a number of them to get the funds you need to attend college.
Should I owe the state money?
You apparently did fail to have enough state income tax withheld out of your gross wages to be used as TAX CREDIT on the correct line of your state income tax return for each pay period during the 2013 tax year to cover your state income tax liability during the 2014 tax filing season. QUALIFY to file as during each tax filing season. Under the age of 24 and still a full time college student during any 5 month period of the tax year and NOT paying MORE than 50% of your own support and still living with your parents in their except for the temporary absences while away attending school during each tax then you will continue to be a QC dependent of parents for the next few years So you really should get with your employer and change your state income tax withholding amount for each pay period during this 2014 tax year so that you will have state income TAX CREDIT amount to use on your 2014 state income tax return during the 2015 tax filing season. Hope that you find the above enclosed information useful. 03/01/2014
Will the voters of each state decide who wins the election in november or does the electoral college decide?
The voters of each state will decide who the electorates are and then the electorates will decide the president. Just like every other year.
How much will 4 years of college cost?
Rough guidelines for the cost of a bachelors degree in the USA on a per year basis (tuition, fees, room and board):Public college for residents of that state: $25,000 per yearPublic college for non-resident: $45,000Private college: $65,000You can find colleges that cost less, per year. You might be able to get some financial aid.As an US citizen/permanent-resident, you could attend an in-state Community College living at home for Zero dollars (other than commuting costs) using Pell grants, and then attend an in-state public college with some merit scholarships and Pell grants for $7,000 per year for junior and senior years..... (The $7,000 will be Federal Direct loans.....)But, typically in the USA, if you and your family have the financial resources to Pay for college, it will be expensive, and plan on the numbers listed above for 2015-16.
How much money does the average American earn a month?
Unlike some countries, American salaries are almost never described in “per month” terms. Incomes are either described as an annual salary or as an hourly wage. With that out of the way, individual income varies wildly, depending on whether one is a full-time worker, whether one is a college graduate or not, and where in the country one lives. Income also varies by age, race, and gender. There is also median income vs, mean income. Lastly. income in the United States is usually reported by the government on a household rather than an individual basis. It is incredibly difficult to find a reliable average for a country, with wild income inequality, of over 320 million people. Even the well-sourced Wikipedia article Personal income in the United States - Wikipedia is full of contradictory information spliced and diced, varying by year. In short, you're not going to get a precise figure, and any average number will not be reflective of how tens and tens of millions of people live.All that said, a rough estimate for median annual personal income in the US, not just full-time workers, is about $33,000 per year, or $2750 per month before taxes. Most full-time workers make more than that.
Do you support "free" college?
By free I mean everyone pays for it through taxes Given the state of higher education nowadays (safe space, microaggressions, trigger warnings) and the long list of useless subjects (african american studies, gender studies, fine arts, liberal arts) is it really a good idea to make taxpayers pay for your education? Yes, those who want to go to colleges should be able to, but not at other people's expense, they can also get a loan or do part time job to fund their education Wouldn't free colleges attract more people to not take college seriously, and treat it like a four year vacation? What about private colleges? Should they be free as well? If so what's to stop them from accepting everyone just for taxpayers' money?