From the article:
“To those parents, I would ask: What would your child’s life look like if you took away that monthly stipend or stopped paying her student loans? Would she go hungry? Or would she learn how to budget in order to accommodate a lifestyle she can afford on her own? I also wonder when the cut-off for financial assistance is. This kind of enabling can be a hard habit to break.”
That’s easy. Food stamps, Obamaphones, Sec 8 vouchers.....
My stepson had a little of that going on after he graduated from college couldn’t find a job while mom kept sending him a monthly check. I suggested she turn off the spigot. She called him a said his last check was in the mail. In a week he had his first real job. He has since gone on to grow up, get married, start his own company and have a baby. It’s amazing what the thought of being suddenly poor and hungry can do for your focus.
What would it be like if a education costs went up at the same rate as wages? instead of $1.2T in debt kids would be able to pay for tuition with summer jobs like we did. A semester cost the same as a4 year degree at the same state school I graduated from in the early 90’s.
Job creation since 2006 isn’t what the 6% official unemployment rate woud suggest. It’s more like the official inflation rate, you know it’s BS if you buy food.
“To those parents, I would ask: What would your Corvette look like if you took away that monthly stipend or stopped paying her student loans...”
Red or blue. I haven’t decided yet.