My boomer generation had a minimum wage where if you worked at your job 8 hours a day for 5/6 days a week, that job allowed the earner to have a decent house, pay the bills, take a vacation and money left for savings. Many of the men, in the small town where I lived, worked for minimum wage. Their wives did not work or if they did, it was a part-time job so that she wasn’t gone when it was time to care for the kids. The kids who went to college worked also but again part-time because parents had money to help pay for their education. I went to a 2 year college first & lived at home and worked. When I transferred to a university I got a nice grant because of my grades, that paid for my tuition. My parents paid for my room & board and I worked part-time to pay for my books. Today the same degree costs 68% more than when I went to school. BUT THE MINIMUM WAGED HAS STAGNATED. No way would I have been able to afford to get my teaching degree THAT WAY in THIS DAY & Time. Jobs today do not pay anywhere nearly enough for a family to pay for college today. College is unaffordable today which makes an educated population unsustainable, if we, don’t do something about the cost of education for today’s students the US will cease to be competitive. Manufacturing will not be done by people anymore. Robots are what will be doing that work A significant part of our population will be needed to work trade jobs. They make more than teachers do - which is not right. Many of those jobs require technical knowledge in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Others use certain parts of those, but with a 2 year degree a worker can have a career that pays the bills and has upward mobility, and contributes to society. Those on here & in our country that say school is too liberal, or that education is useless have a real problem. BTW, Liberal means educated. They cannot see that as little as a year or 2 of education will put anyone on the path to a better life. They cannot reason out that they are being manipulated by those who gain more by paying them less. They will be the prisoners of their inability to see reason when it smacks them in the face. They will always be the sheep who complain about their situation caused by those they follow blindly. Technically they are lacking in their amygdala. They have to WANT TO CHANGE to correct their situation.