{"id":2089,"date":"2014-01-23T19:54:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T19:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2014-01-23T19:54:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T19:54:04","slug":"us-college-degrees-cost-more-than-a-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/us-college-degrees-cost-more-than-a-house\/","title":{"rendered":"US college degrees cost more than a house."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;v=sMr2BxA_HVU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube video<\/a> of Marty Nemko debunking myths of big incomes that come from going to college, landed in an in-tray almost unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s from 2011, and is still valid.\u00a0 The data is unattractive.<\/p>\n<p>The alternatives to college that he advocates, like community college, part-time, apprenticeship and work to learn, make better sense for more than 2\/3 of matriculants.\u00a0 Nearly 40% of students will never get increased productivity or net-earnings from their time spent at university.\u00a0 But, at least they&#8217;ll learn to party&#8230;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sMr2BxA_HVU?feature=player_detailpage\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This YouTube video of Marty Nemko debunking myths of big incomes that come from going to college, landed in an in-tray almost unnoticed. It&#8217;s from 2011, and is still valid.\u00a0 The data is unattractive. The alternatives to college that he advocates, like community college, part-time, apprenticeship and work to learn, make better sense for more &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/us-college-degrees-cost-more-than-a-house\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US college degrees cost more than a house.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-xH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}