Chantal Castillo, Welding Academy graduate, shares her reasons for entering a trade job instead of going to college.
Some Vanderbilt students will have $100,000 in total expenses for the 2024-2025 school year. And the price tag without travel will be more than $90,000 for four New England universities starting this fall.
More Generation Z workers are going into trades as disenchantment with the college track increases and rising pay in plumbing and welding compete with a parallel generation of students graduating with degrees and no real direction of what they want to do in life.
This, all coupled with the Biden administration desperately retooling another plan to buy votes by promising people they will wipe away student debt, only to have student debt mold itself back into shape like the villain in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day."
Boone Willams, 20, brazes a copper pipe during a second-year apprentice training program class at the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union 572 facility in Nashville, Tennessee, on Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)
Where did we go wrong? How did we get to a point where we have $1.7 trillion of student debt, $1.1 trillion of credit card debt, and $1.6 trillion of auto loan debt? Didn’t high school teach us that if you keep on piling on debt the inevitability of........