{"id":21673,"date":"2014-03-18T08:15:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T12:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=21673"},"modified":"2014-03-18T08:22:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T12:22:01","slug":"conversation-about-the-cost-of-college-starts-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/03\/18\/conversation-about-the-cost-of-college-starts-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation About The Cost Of College Starts In Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Graduation day at Northwest Florida State College.<\/p><\/div>\n

NPR has started a series of conversations about paying for the rising cost of college.<\/a><\/p>\n

For their first interview, NPR spoke with David Sherker, a student at Coral Reef High School in Miami<\/a>, and his family. President Barack Obama recently spoke at the school to encourage students to apply for federal financial aid and prod Congress to approve $100 million in ideas to make college more affordable.<\/p>\n

The rising cost of college is frightening. From the story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The College Board says the average at public four-year colleges and universities increased by 27 percent beyond the rate of inflation over the five years from the 2008-09 academic year to 2013-14. After adjusting for inflation, the cost of tuition more than tripled between 1973 and 2013.<\/p>\n

That reality has been forcing more and more students to take on staggering debts. Among all students who graduated from four-year colleges in 2012, seven in 10 left with debt.<\/p>\n

And that debt load is heavy \u2014 an average of , according to the Institute for College Access and Success. Just 20 years ago, fewer than half of college students graduated with debt, and the amount was less than $10,000 on average.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But as we and others have noted: Not going to college will cost you<\/a>. The earnings gap between those with a bachelor’s degree and those without is at a 50-year high.<\/p>\n

Listen to the interview below:<\/p>\n

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NPR has started a series of conversations about paying for the rising cost of college. For their first interview, NPR spoke with David Sherker, a student at Coral Reef High School in Miami, and his family. President Barack Obama recently spoke at the school to encourage students to apply for federal financial aid and prod […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1013,1070,1141,1046],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21673"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21677,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21673\/revisions\/21677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}