"… Public health authorities in the United States record educational qualifications at death so that, after 1992, we can calculate life expectancy by college degree, starting at age 25, when most people have completed their education. In new research using these individual death records, we have found startling results.
Life expectancy at age 25 (adult life expectancy) for those with four-year college degrees rose to 59 years on the eve of the pandemic — so an average individual would live to 84 — up from 54 years (or 79 years old) in 1992. During the pandemic, by 2021, the expectation slipped a year.
But we were staggered to discover that for those without college degrees, life expectancy reached its peak around 2010 and has been falling since, an unfolding disaster that has attracted little attention in the media or among elected officials..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/opinion/life-expectancy-college-degree.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Without a College Degree, Life in America Is Staggeringly Shorter
My mom has told me recently that a modern bachelor's degree today holds about the same power an associates held in her college years. In my family, there is a push to go for a masters or even a doctorate for a better chance at a job. With the value of a bachelor's dropping, the value of a high school diploma has plummeted. There is only so many jobs you can do without a degree these days and most of them involve retail and food service. The issue is that high school diplomas don't make a livable wage. In a capitalistic society, we have to pay to be alive. If we can't afford that, we are expected to go off an die some where. The life expectancy is short because there is no help for those without money. No healthcare, no shelter, no food and so on leads to death. It is incredibly hard to survive in these conditions.
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DeleteI sadly agree here. I want to say people can get by without college, but with how things are turning out in todays society it becomes harder and harder to support yourself or your family. I think now the only way to make it stable is to go to college, and even then you really got to pull your legs out from under you and figure out how to afford college.
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ReplyDeleteIt's sad but true. I do think we can solve this problem but that calls for other touchy subject to be solved and that gets too controversial for people to handle at times.