å Sunday, October 23rd, 2016

The more education one has the higher pay rate they’ll receive, and the result of lower education equates to a higher rate of unemployment. The more accessible education would dictate the lessening of unemployment. The Bureau of Labor Statistics article surrounds itself around the same notion of the relation between education and work. It offers the unemployment rate ratios of annual earnings and their level of education. Those with a lower income had an education level of a High School diploma or less, made less than five hundred dollars a week. Oppose to those with a Ph.D. made over sixteen hundred weekly. A higher education level offers more than two times the additional money on weekly basis. The range of acquired education offers its own pros and cons; unfortunately having a higher education does not guarantee a higher paying job. All a higher education offers is a possibility or repaying incredibly high loans. None the less education does dictate a large gap in income.

The article Raising the floor, Not just the Ceiling offers insight on a trend of which higher education does not automatically secure employment correlated with the degree earned. Cottom argues his views on our administration, and the lack of effort implicated to assist consistency in rightful employment to those of higher education. The administration should advocate for job programs in hopes of stimulating higher education. There should be a guaranteed federal job security for those with higher education to obtain a predictably reasonable wage.

The article High Culture and Hard Labor, through example, offers perspective on the uneven playing field of the educated and none educated. In this case, the employer held their employee captivate and restricted their rights. The workers are viewed as mere specs of labor willing to do anything to fend for their families. Employees were housed in camps, their passports were taken, and they were given such minute wages.

The article Congressional report slams for-profit colleges, the insight of the underlying problematic results of obtaining a higher education; debt. This article argues the profits for private equity. The majority of profits obtained by Colleges are through high tuition.  Companies spend more of their revenue on marketing and profit sharing than proper educational methods. The increases in tuition implemented, satisfy company profit goals.

The lack of education has resulted in a form of exploitation of the minority. The form of education offers a sense of power and with this power many fall victim to vulnerability. Employers feed off their employee’s vulnerability and take advantage of their rights. Employment codes are constantly violated by the hands of employers. It’s easier for an employer to take advantage if their employer is uneducated because they are simply unaware of their rights and protective labor laws. These uneducated people are often sought out for mere intent of exploitation.

In relation to the articles between education and work, the message is clear the higher the education, the better opportunities one has to obtain a well-paying job. Therefore, you are less likely to lose your job. If you have the upper education with a stable job, the unemployment rates will be low. In the case of someone who has a lower education level the fewer opportunities, they have to be able to obtain a well-paying job. If they have a lower educational attainment and not able to keep your job. They will have to be part of the unemployment rate, which increases the level of unemployment of people with lower education. Higher education comes at a very expensive cost, and the security of obtaining a stable well-paying job at the is not always secure.
In the article “Raising the Floor, Not Just the Ceiling” by Tressie McMillan Cottom concentrates on the issue of the administration of President Obama, not focusing on the higher education system. We can see that higher education does not mean to have a secure job after college. Therefore, he suggests a guaranteed job at the of college will be the answer to unemployment. The cost of obtaining an education has skyrocketed, students want to attend college for a better job, yet they are finding themselves with tons of debt after college, and many don’t find employment a year after they graduate at least not employment in the field they graduate from. Also with the prices of college higher and higher students are having to settle for a community or a college program they can afford. They have to look away from elite well know college although they may have the grades and brains to be admitted yet they don’t have the means to paying for it. Students have have to settle for less when it comes to their education. Cottom argues that the Obama administration has not don’t anything for higher education and should to advocate as much as they can while Obama is still in office.
As the cost of higher education rises, people are taking advantage of by having to accept mistreatment of employees to earn a living. In the Saadiyat Island, workers who come from Pakistan, India, Nepal, and Bangladesh are lied to and promised by the recruitment companies. They are taken away from their homes, to have to live in poor conditions, having to pay for their living arrangement and work long extend hours with no pay in sight for years to come. Languages play a significant barrier many can’t advocates for themselves, have no education, and their passport is hidden from them. The fact that they have no college degree and are desperate to have a job makes them be taken advantaged. The article on for-profit colleges states how the for-profit colleges are meant to be a way to students who can afford or attend community or state college have options. Many of their students do not graduate. They are concerned about having high enroll numbers and not high graduating numbers, the money they could put into ensuring their students graduate and obtain a job after; they use the money for advertising and marketing to attract new incoming students. Ironic how their primary goal is to attract student to enroll, yet they do not spend as much effort in securing a high graduation rate and obtain a job in their field after college.

The relationship between work and education for this week’s High Culture and Hard Labor by Andrew Ross and Raising the Floor, Not Just the Ceiling by Tressie McMillan Cotton are connecting the idea that in this day an age having a High School diploma does not take you as far as it used to. Now in order for a person to get a good job you need to have a college degree. But a college degree does not guarantee a job ones a person is out of college. Acquiring a college degree is not as easy any more because colleges are rising costs. Now low income students aim for lower and more affordable colleges instead of the elite colleges because of rising prices. Most students decide to attend college because they need a job, they are more interested in the job at the end of the college education than in the education the college has to offer. Unfortunately the job at the end is not a guarantee, because many students finish college an it takes them too long to be able to find a job in the field the studied.
As this crises between education work many corporations are taking advantage of people how don’t have a college degree because this guarantees them cheaper labor. These is the case of the Kafala sponsorship programs of different regions of Abu Dhabi and Dubai many people are being exploited. They promise people from India,Pakistan,Nepal,Bangladesh and Sri Lanka good jobs. The recruitment company promised standard labor comps and a good pay. When workers arrived realized that those were only promises and many of those workers were owed a lot of money but worse of all those employers kept the workers passports and those workers could not return home.
If we ask those workers the price they had to pay for those cultural institutions being erected on Saadiyat’s Island they would say is not worth’s the risk of them not being able to see there families and not being able to live a decent life.
Unfortunately the exploitation of workers doesn’t only happen in those far regions. It also happens in the U.S. on a daily basis. If a person is uneducated it is easier for an employer to take advantage of them because it is less likely that person is aware of the labor laws and of there rights as an employee. The employer tends to look for people who did not go to college and have a lower level education because they are easy to exploit.

In relation to the articles we read about the relationship between work and education, it can be argued that one’s ability to earn higher wages can be sought through one’s attainment of higher levels in education. It can also be said that a person who obtains higher form of education are less likely to fall into unemployment. We tend to see that higher forms of education attract higher salaries to those who can complete them. People normally enroll into higher education systems in order to obtain good paying jobs and earn decent living salaries. While higher education can equate to decent paying jobs, the guarantee is not always the case.

In our other reading by Cottom, we tend to see that higher education does not necessarily secure employment of a salary which may associate with the degree earned. The author argues that our administration has not done enough to assist obtain employment to those who earn their level of higher education. In fact, in the Fain article, those who have received their degrees come out of colleges more in debt. The Fain article argues that for profit colleges are much more interested in gaining profit from students than anything else. Cotom continues to argue that colleges along with our administration should guarantee federal job security for those who obtain their college degrees in order to obtain a livable wage. Also, Cottom continues to suggest that the current administration should speak to advocating for massive job programing in order to simulate higher education rather than vice versa. It is a concept he believes will balance the obtainment of education and give graduates the ability to secure employment with livable wage.

In the Sadduyat Island piece, we tend to see a disparity between what is stated in the agreement and construction of these educational institutions to the workers and what is actually being done. These high renowned institutions are not valuing the promises made to their workers, which they bring from all over the world and provided them the minimum provisions. Low wages, under par living conditions and even unsafe work environments are the reality of the workers of these institutions while these industries thrive in the profits of the worker sacrifice. We can connect this piece to the for-profit colleges of the U.S. due to the simple fact that these institutions promise for a better brighter future without providing in the long run. It can be argued that both the for profit colleges and the Sadduyat Island construction are profiting at the expense of building promises and hopes but not securing the individuals who they propose to give a successful future and career.