Yes, wages are so low in many places that a parent supporting a family on a single income falls below many means-tested thresholds.

$27k is $13 an hour, assuming 40 hour weeks 52 weeks a year with no days off. This is below minimum wage where I live.

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My university looks like a country club now. When I went there the dorms all looked like projects.

A cruise, for 2 people

Google sheets

That's nonsense. The average individual with a college degree earns over a million dollars more in their lifetime. The average student loans are only $30,000 and that's ignoring all the people with no loans at all. There is no better investment a person in this can make than their own education.

AKA: More than minimum wage.

The extra amenities don't pay for themselves.

The college my dad went to was basically an oversized high school. Then my sister went to look at it a few years ago and now it's really nice. New dorms, new gym, new library and labs. New cafeteria.

Like 7x the price.

Sprite, I’ll try that one time! We get Stiegl Grapefruit where I’m from in Canada, it just feels like a picnic every time I drink one!

Are there any that you recommend?

>The income limit for an automatic zero expected family contribution is $27,000.

https://www.bestcolleges.com/student-finance/fafsa-income-limits/

My nose is itching just by looking at that.

Loans and cost of schooling is such a trap these days that being a plumber is more profitable long term than something like a doctor.

For profit education is a scam and so are the loans that support it. The fact that anyone would spout such garbage in support of it is kind of a weirdly fitting example of how little education the average person gets these days.

So you can afford a year of tuition if you spend no money on anything else. Ignoring that university SHOULD be a full time job in itself.

Anyone else think if we have a mathematically provably impossible system we need to tear it down and figure something else out?...

I feel you for Gephi not saving correctly ahahah, have used it just for a project but every time I reopened a project I used filters on I had errors and had to restart all over again 🙃

Pretty interesting for those being put in the mainly American component

So basically it only applies to people with rich parents who are dicks and won't help them pay? That seems like a pretty esoteric concern. Especially because those people could get loans and pay after they graduate and have a higher income.

This comment is idiotic because you clearly doesn’t understand the minutiae of FAFSA. If you work minimum wage and live at home, your parent’s income is what qualifies you for financial aid, not yours.

Also, free community college can be limited to certain programs. Not everyone can get the degree or even start in a general direction of their desired career path for free. There’s a lot of red tape and this boils it down to person needing to work x amount of minimum wage to afford an average year of tuition.

Maybe its been asked before, allow me to ask again, how do you keep track of the days? I mean how do you store the data?

Plot twist: OP only spend 100$!

This chart is idiotic because if you're on minimum wage you will qualify for considerable financial aid. Also, some of these states offer free community college to everyone so there's options other than just the state university.

Jesus dude. Why’d you get sick so much? 🤢

Here you go for centrality and here you go for modularity! I had to rerun the algorithm because my Gephi project didn't save correctly for some reason, that's why the layout is different. Thank you for the ideas!

Edit: Just realised that Gephi coloured Heathrow and Charles de Gaulle in with America... I wonder what the British and the French would think about that.

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From the report: "the average college student in 2023 has to work about 4x as many hours on minimum wage as a student 30 years ago to access the same education."