Tuition Increase Causes Struggle for Future UVa Students

Tuition Increase Causes Struggle for Future UVa Students

The University of Virginia recently decided to raise their tuition for both in-state and out of state students. In-states student tuition has raised by $486 or 4.7 percent, while out of state tuition has been raise by $2268 or 6.2 percent. This puts a strain on current and future UVa students that are also struggling monetarily. Even to the middle class, the amount needed to pay for tuition puts them at a disadvantage. With the amount needed to sustain a household of four, sending even one of their kids to college causes financial struggles for years to come. The options are very limited to what they can do; taking out a loan and joining the military seem to be the only two solid options. Applying for scholarships are also an option, but those are unsure and others are constantly applying for them, minimizing the availability of money.

Not only is this a problem at UVa, but a problem at all colleges. Average people who want to achieve higher education have a harder time getting into any school because of their finances. Around the United States, the economy has made it harder for normal people to earn the money needed to send their children to higher education, which continues the cycle of the poor staying poor. To fix this problem, the cost of living wage should be raised, especially in the city of Charlottesville.

Earlier in the year, Obama proposed that the cost of minimum wage should be raised to ten or more dollars, but so far the issue has been left up to states. Currently, the minimum wage in Virginia is $7.25 per hour; barely enough to sustain a household of two. I believe to help with the issue, Virginia should raise the minimum wage to at least $11.11 per hour. Not only to assist with college cost for the next generation, but to help with daily problems that families go through. With the rise of minimum wage, families who have always wished to send their children to college may now have that chance.

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1. Gender has been a topic of discrimination, especially with the issue of the 20th Amendment. Race is a civil rights issue as well. Also people who suffer with disabilities get discriminated against when buying homes, etc. 
2. The 13th Amendment abolished Slavery and Servitude unless you have committed a crime. 
3. The Black Codes prevented African American citizens equal opportunities that their white counterparts had. For example, states could hire out black people for help without paying them. 
4. The 14th Amendment allowed all people who are born in the US to be claimed as US citizens. 
5. The 15th Amendment gave African American men the right to vote. 
6. To separate white and black people in public facilities. 
7. The poll tax, literacy test, and grandfather clause were all used to prevent blacks from voting. Blacks could not pay a poll tax every time they wanted to vote, and most of them were not educated, especially coming from slavery. The Grandfather Clause was used to scare black people into not voting. The Ku Klux Klan would stand outside of the polls and scare them from voting. 
8. Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that segregation was legal as long as public facilities were "separate but equal" 
9. Brown v. Board of Education ruled that segregation is unconstitutional, and overturned Plessy v. Ferguson. 
10. De jure segregation is separation forced by law, while de facto segregation is when an individual enforces separation.