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America Quietly Devalued and Discarded The College Graduate
The financial gain and social prestige once promised by America’s higher education institutions are no longer guaranteed realities.
“Unbeknownst to the kids of the seventies and eighties, society was just five-minutes away from a sharp socioeconomic and academic downturn.”
Antiquated?
It’s possible.
One thing is for certain, if you are a member of Gen X, an Xennial, or a Millennial, you were probably raised to believe that college was the answer to many of life’s economic problems.
If you are an African-American of that generation you were definitely raised with The Huxtables of “The Cosby Show” and the college-based cast of characters on “A Different World”, and you probably believed that college completion was a guaranteed entrance to elitism, a middle to upper class lifestyle, and a lifetime of employment security.
Unbeknownst to the kids of the seventies and eighties, society was just five minutes away from a sharp socioeconomic and academic downturn.
