{"id":18292,"date":"2011-04-20T14:13:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T18:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=18292"},"modified":"2011-04-20T14:13:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T18:13:04","slug":"poll-no-matter-what-their-major-today%e2%80%99s-college-students-getting-hard-lessons-in-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/04\/20\/poll-no-matter-what-their-major-today%e2%80%99s-college-students-getting-hard-lessons-in-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: No matter what their major, today\u2019s college students getting hard lessons in finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/poll-no-matter-their-specialty-most-college-students-learning-hard-lessons-in-finance\/2011\/04\/20\/AFuLw29D_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Poll: No matter what their major, today\u2019s college students getting hard lessons in finance<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from WashingtonPost.com by Associated Press<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">WASHINGTON \u2014 In these tight times, college students are getting a lesson  in economics no matter what their major. Students say money influences  everything from what school they attend and what career they pursue to  how quickly they complete their degrees \u2014 or whether they graduate at  all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Money problems, not bad grades, are the reason cited by most college  students who have considered dropping out, an Associated Press-Viacom  poll finds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Recession-battered parents have less money to spend on their kids\u2019  tuition. Jobs that used to be waiting upon graduation aren\u2019t there  anymore \u2014 consumed by the nation\u2019s 8.8 percent unemployment rate. And  college prices keep going up, as states struggle with budget deficits.  Average tuition, room and board rose to about $16,000 at in-state public  schools this year and $37,000 at private schools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poll: No matter what their major, today\u2019s college students getting hard lessons in finance &#8212; from WashingtonPost.com by Associated Press WASHINGTON \u2014 In these tight times, college students are getting a lesson in economics no matter what their major. Students say money influences everything from what school they attend and what career they pursue to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,159,306,66],"tags":[52,290,653,349,733,603,572],"class_list":["post-18292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-economics","category-student-related","tag-budgetary","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-dangers-of-the-status-quo","tag-economicsbusiness","tag-financial-aid","tag-student-related","tag-walmart-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18292"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18296,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18292\/revisions\/18296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}