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You'd be better served reading the article. I normally don't but 90% of the posts on this thread are based on a completely incorrect understanding. The article is pretty brief. She want for an AA and BA. Her disabled mother took out a load to help her.

She's actively looking for work and was scooping ice cream at one point. Many of these stories are just a result of stupid left wing thinking (thinking? I'm being generous!), but this one struck me as a little more understandable, in a sad sort of way.

I just went back and read the entire article. So she now has a bachelors degree in Culinary Nutrition at Johnson & Wales University in Providence along with the associates degree from the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco. Never even heard of those two schools. Looked up Johnson & Wales and they are a "non-profit" private university! Now that's irony for you. Looking up the California Culinary Academy, I found that it is no longer, as class-action lawsuits (for exaggerating job placement percentages) caused it to shut down.

So the poor girl is $100K poorer and is still apparently as unemployable as she was before.

I don't know the whole story and I probably never will but it seems odd she would go into debt for so much money in order to obtain obscure degrees that are "fringe" at best.

Our young people are sold a bill of goods with these college degrees. It is drummed into them that they must get a degree in order to get a job and that is just not so. It is much better to get into the workforce and learn your skills that way. If you want to go into night school to get a degree while you are working (as I did), then all the power to you.

So many people are going to college that degrees are not valued like they used to be. Seeing a college degree on a resume does not impress me at all unless it was at a respected university and/or pointed out that they were awarded scholarships based on academic performance.

It used to be that a college degree meant something and almost guaranteed employment as it was relatively rare back in the day. Now everybody's got one so it's nothing special anymore.