Does having a college degree means your better off than someone without a college degree

Hello family I think its time for a debate: I said debate, not argue meaning discussion guys. (smile) Does having a college degree means your better off than someone without a college degree?
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Yusuf Urban Scholar Spencer Nope!
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Dracy Hyman On average, college graduates do earn more than high school graduates, although the earning differentials between the two may vary over time.....
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Dracy Hyman To me thats the only difference.....although Bill Gates, disproves this theory!
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Yusuf Urban Scholar Spencer Bill and countless others lol.. america has crazy millionaires especially in NJ... assets =millions.....
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Kathy M. Jones No I don't feel it does, but "THEY" want us to believe different.
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Tanya Copprue Absolutely not and I have several!
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Gwendolyn Luckey Ced, I hope Hadi doesn't see this post! I'll tell you why later!
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Gwendolyn Luckey When it comes to certain Jobs, a college degree certainly means that you are better off in obtaining that position, but honestly Ced, I'd like to send a couple of college graduates back to school to learn some Common Sense 101! Some people like to "holla" I have a college degree! But I think they were sitt'n in class on FB!
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Tricia Floyd I would first ask what do you mean by better off. If your talking strictly financially, the chances are that a person with a college degree would make more money however the two people your comparing would have to be of the same age, area, work field, etc. To me, having a college means you have more education in a studied area then a person without a college degree; nothing more, nothing less.
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Cedrick Goodman
Wonderful replies everyone, and there all notably taken. Current data inidicates that those with College Degrees do make more money than those without. Current Data is also indicating that 70% of the current professional work force have col...lege degrees. Now this is not my data but current sensus being distributed.Now I agree education is key to empowerment of all kinds, social, financiall, political, etc. But the question to me is what kind of education will bring about that knowledge to obtain those freedoms we all so desperately strive to obtain. Money buys freedom from debt, buys homes, eliminates homelessness, buys a quality education, buys peace of mine, etc. If the american educational system is failing and is no longer leading the free world and its graduating 80-90% of its people as functional eliterate how educated really are we to compared to the rest or the world who is leading us? Are we really educated? those with College Degree or those with out? Or are we all pawns of a educational system that was desgined to keep us as its labor instead becoming its future leaders in all field areas or stay its cheap labor? hmmSee More
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Cedrick Goodman ‎@Tricia, Very true however today many companies don't care what field of study they just want you to have a degree that shows that you finished. My question to you then is if America promotes for you to get a college eduation to get a great paying job. Is this true as an accurate assessment? or not the reality?
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Gary Lavon Herring Mba ‎*Emphatic* (H) NO! I still question why I went at all! I know why I "needed" to go tho'... Better off? No, bruh - means absolutely nothing to me. I don't have 1 college diploma/degree hanging on ANY wall. G
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Cedrick Goodman G, If this is not true or the reality then why promote it or why continue to say it? Especially when theres no job for you when you finish?
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Tanya Copprue ‎@ Gary, both of my Master's degrees are somewhere in my closet collecting dust! And I'm disertation shy of my Phd. My wit and skills have done more for me than my education, and I'll be paying until I'm 100 to pay for all those degrees!
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Tanya Copprue And the sad part is as a college professor I have to present this front to the youth, that an education will solve their problem, No Capitalism is the ruler and as long as someone controls your paycheck, they control you. We must builld and support our own businesses & real estate!
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Sonja MamaDeac Webster TWO WORDS: Bill Gates (nuff said)
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Tricia Floyd Great question. I would support encouraging everyone to get a college degree because the job market is so competitive. For my job a specific college degree is required and I dont think it could be properly done without a degree in one of two fields. I think overall a college degree will increase your earnings however with certainly degrees it takes time & experience.
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Tricia Floyd However, I agree with Tanya about building self owned business and real estate.
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Tricia Floyd one major downside to certain college degrees is you graduate with loans that ur current income canafford so u become a.hustler by working many jobs or you struggle
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Tanya Copprue
I have many affluent friends and I know Doctors and even some attorneys that are still in debt paying for their education, and I'm a psychotherapist by trade. I teach college also socio-economics, and I know for sure that while education ca...n free anyone, from mental oppression it gives a lot of people, especially black folks a false sense of security and fake a## Superiority over their less fortunate brothers and sisters! This country was founded on capitalism, ruftless capitalism, and unless you understand how to legally play that game, them papers don't mean sh#t! Now I was educated well before I entered college, because I like my father are avid research scholars by nature, a file cabinet with my research, I affectionately call Brutus has been my loyal companion for years. School only enhanced and refined what God already gave me! Had I had known what I know today, I would have invested those thousands of dollars in real estate and smart business moves, and would have been mentored by one of my many millionaire friends, who by the way three of which are highschool drop outs! Hey I'm an educator, I believe in education, but textbooks and degrees don't teach our people how to end poverty or how to stop being a bunch of crabs in a barrel frowning and pulling down a sister or brother who tries to do better!See More
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Cedrick Goodman
Tanya for first lady. lol. Family I posed this question for this reason. Many of the great pioneers who paved the way for all of us, family included did'nt have a college education or access to the internet. They not only were oppressed, di...scriminated against, murdered, and locked out of main stream society with no access to the resources of others but they did more with less. How come those who claim this academia greatness have not come even close to the founders of old who many did'nt even know how to read and write. But did so much more. Tanya I achieved more with out going to college than school could ever teach me. By trade I am a mortgage broker and have invested in real estate and made good money, so I know first hand of that. Status is what society promotes. Capitlism is king and ruler yes, however without knowledge and understanding to obtain or pursue it we stay locked out of ever attaining true financial freedom to change our condition.See More
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Reubina Crayton Well as far as im concerned i would recommend any young women or man to get all the education they could get and while they are getting it specialize in a particular field where you know in most cases you will have a job and mostly its the medical field or either being an educator and thats king of shakey
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Lisa Lee McBride I don't know Tanya but I soooooo "heart" her intelligence., In an effort not to make FB my own personal reality show I will send her a message. That's one smart ass cookie there!!!!!! Dat girl good! LOL
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Lisa Lee McBride meant to say* NOT make FB my own personal reality show* Just would like to hear her thoughts in person. I love reading her responses. Book smart and realistic. Great combo!
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Cedrick Goodman Hey LiLi, how are you?
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Tanya Copprue ‎@ Lisa I've been up & I've been down, and God has been my shield & my strength through it all. I humbly say what I say because it has been lessons well learned! So my ego won't take any credit, but my heart shows appreciation.
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Cedrick Goodman Ok Tanya I want my 50% split for all future book promotional activities. lol.
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Tanya Copprue ‎@ Cedric LMBO, stop posting intriguing and stimulating coversation pieces, and I will quietly ignore them the way I do most of the stuff on FB! Very rarely do I put my two cents or senses into stuff posted on here! It was a good post!
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Tanya Copprue Typo conversation ooops!
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Cedrick Goodman Well I guess you'll be around for a while then. Cause I can't help it. lol.
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Bruce Anderson Sr No Bro. It does not mean you are better off then someone without a degree. Some times the degree can hurt you in many ways. I know this to be a fact.
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Poshjane Doe Used to but don't believe so now
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Linda Anderson
Hi Ced, I think having a degree is very important in the African American Community. The issue is affordability and what school you received the degree from. Most people know that Bill Gates attended an Ivy League school but didnt finish.... Now we have some entertainers who didnt complete college i.e. 50 Cents, to name a few and they are millionaires 10 times over. However the average African American adult would be better off with a degree; however as one of the commentors previously stated and I am paraphrasing, "a degree alone isn't enough" we must find a way to take advantage of the education in an economic way to empower ourselves and our communities. We look around and studies have shown that we spend more than any other race, we are major consumers; yet look at your neighborhood businesses. We could do a lot better if we could just figure out how to provide a service or product that we all need and open our own businessess and support each other financially, politically and most of all spiritually!!!! Again, having a degree helps. Look at Obama his Harvard Colleagues helped get him into the White House, need I say more?See More
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