Argumentative Essay: High Cost Of College

“‘Education has always been the secret sauce, the secret to America’s success,’ he said” (Baskin Obama pushes free, two-year college plan at Michigan speech) Many of todays significant leaders have expansive college degrees in business and politics, but for many this is out of reach. Todays cost of a college degree stands at $137,000 a premium price for such a standard necessity. So how in one of the worlds most privileged and advanced nations do graduated students accumulate over one trillion dollars in debt. The answer is not that he or she is irresponsible, but completely the opposite he or she is smart by societies standards. But due to the crippling price of college tuition, students have limited prospects. College should be free to attend …show more content…
With many lower income students falling victim of their surroundings today there are more young African Americans in prison than there are in college. If the United States was to institute free college crime rates would drop as well. For example, Norway has free college and allows many under privileged children to get a good education because of this their crime rate is at twenty percent, unlike Americas crime rate of 76.5%. If America was to adopt this system, the public would see a drastic change to prisons and as well as equality allowing under privilege children to get a better education. As recent as March of 2016, Detroit has enacted a free community college for the Fall term of 2016 this new legislation will allow 2,000 students to attend college for free and will continue to help students pay for a better education. A better education not only is good for the student, but for their family as well it supports a better way of life provided by better jobs and most likely better surrounding. If America was to adopt free college drastic changes would promote lower income students to have higher education and better quality of life with these changes, we would see lower prison rates for young African