{"id":2171,"date":"2012-05-20T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2012-05-18T16:04:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T20:04:01","slug":"congratulations-now-start-paying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/05\/20\/congratulations-now-start-paying\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations&#8230;now, start paying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2172\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/05\/20\/congratulations-now-start-paying\/graduation\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2172\" title=\"graduation\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/05\/graduation-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/05\/graduation-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/05\/graduation.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>From all at NCPR, congratulations to everyone who walked across the stage this month to receive a college diploma. We look forward to hearing about the good work you do.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, for most of you, there&#8217;s an urgency to find work&#8211;any work&#8211;to start paying down the student loans. This<a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/happy-graduation-heres-the-best-most-depressing-journalism-on-student-debt\"> article<\/a> from ProPublica tells the bleak story for recent graduates across the country&#8230;all compounded, of course, by the depressed jobs landscape.<\/p>\n<p>But for this month, enjoy the sense of accomplishment, pat yourself on the back for achieving that degree. It&#8217;s a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>For those of us well along in our professional lives, I have a question. I was lucky enough to attend a topnotch FREE school, City College of NY. I paid $35 each semester to register, and bought books (usually a total of $100). I lived independently, but with those tuition costs (or lack of costs), I was easily able to go to school full-time and support myself. What does your experience with college loans look like? How many years ago did you finish your higher education? The ProPublica piece gives a good sense of how tuition costs have skyrocketed since we were in college&#8211;whether 10 years or four decades ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From all at NCPR, congratulations to everyone who walked across the stage this month to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}