Assignment #6
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.
