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It’s time to care about the economy
For a lot of students, college is full of uncertainties and stressful situations. We’re learning how to be adults while still trying to avoid the responsibilities of the real world.
Because we live and breathe the college experience, sometimes we wind up in a bubble that can exclude some of the biggest news going on. However, one of the biggest things we would like to ignore is right around the corner from breaking that bubble.
For several months now the economy has been in a really weird place. We have high inflation rates that don’t seem to be getting better anytime soon, in fact they’re definitely going to get worse, and job growth is starting to slow down.
However, the demand for workers is higher than ever, an article published by the New York Times in September states.
With some much ebb and flow, it can almost feel like now isn’t the time to start worrying about stuff like job availability and the cost of living. After all, economists and politicians can’t even agree on whether the United States is moving out of a recession or getting deeper into one. All they can agree on is that the economy is in rough shape.
So why should we care?
While all of this sounds incredibly heavy and might be a little scary to think about, the current economic climate will have a lot of effect on the next few years of our lives.
It will decide how likely we are to find an entry-level position that matches the current cost of living, how much we’ll be able to invest into our retirement funds (yes, we should start doing that now) and how quickly some of us will get out of student loan debt and set down some stable roots.
A poll done by Student Loan Hero found that 46% of 1,000 college students surveyed are worried that they’ll graduate in a recession.
Along with that, the debate on whether students should follow the money and get degrees that will get them a steady job or follow their passions is coming to a head. And, as the threat of financial instability grows, more students are starting to side with the money.
It’s sad that it’s come to this, but it’s the unfortunate situation we’re in. We had no control about how we got here. However, we can control how we get out of it.
It starts with understanding what’s going on in the U.S. economy. Because it effects everything, it’s good to start understanding the ups and downs it usually has. That might mean doing a bit of research on your own.
The high school economics class you took can only get you so far. Economics majors can’t be the only ones who know what is going on out there. I also think that understanding it can help those that still want to pursue the things that Aubrie Lawrence make them the happiest as a career. The career I’ve chosen doesn’t have a particularly high salary for the first several years of employment. With that in mind, I’m trying to do everything I can to start off on the right foot. Even if that means asking for help sometimes. While money may be tight right now, after all we are all broke college students, figuring out the game that is the economy can help ensure that money isn’t tight forever and that entering the world during a recession isn’t so scary.
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6Nov. 4, 2022 | The Eagle | csceagle.com Opinion
As We See It
Why do we entertain missile tantrums
u By Velvet Jessen
Opinion Editor
At what point have we gone too far? If you haven’t seen it yet, North Korea is yet again shooting missiles. Except this time, they have a target and a point that their dictator wants to make.
On Wednesday, North Korea launched more than 20 missiles. It started as a test-firing of the missiles when one landed across the border which then started a chain of events. South Korea sent three missiles toward the border as a response and then received 100 rounds of artillery and more missile launches from North Korea.
This might seem like another dumb missile test that North Korea is trying to do that leads to nothing. But this time around could be different.
Different analysts have different ideas of what Kim Jung Un was trying to do but overall, it seems like a step towards bigger things.
South Korea sees it as “a violation” of their territory and don’t want to escalate it to the level of war. And North Korea wants to challenge South Korea and the trade sanctions the United States have put on the country while building his nuclear arsenal according to nbcnews.com.
This could lead to nothing, another missile firing in North Korea that didn’t lead to anything other than putting people on edge in South Korea for a few days. And I’m sure most people in the U.S. won’t think much of it, after all if it’s not here it’s not our problem.
Except that it is, the U.S. has
Velvet Jessen a habit of making other countries their business. The U.S. currently has 28,500 troops stationed in South Korea, according to reuters.com. We decided to make it our business in 1950 when we joined the Korean war and never found a way to leave.
After almost 70 years, I think we probably could have found a way out. Staying and helping keep peace and helping South Korea develop for a while was a good idea.
But now I wonder if 70 years later we should have let them try to stand on their own. Our presence is helpful but maybe instead of just letting our presence do most of the talking we should have used it to help them and teach them how to stand on their own.
Granted, they have done military training with the U.S. troops but if we’re still there we obviously think it hasn’t been enough.
But at some point we have to decide if we’ve been there too long and whether we’re really still helping. We should have been slowly deciding if we needed to move out and stop supplying troops and start supplying weapons or other things that don’t put extra lives on the line.
This isn’t something American lives have to be at risk for.
We should have been working on this the past 70 years so that both the South Korean and American people are safe from North Korea, instead of having to entertain his missile tantrums.
We are not going to be backing down
u By Kamryn Kozisek
Staff Editor
It is pretty common for many people our age to be treated like they don’t have enough knowledge to speak out about subjects.
We are told that because we are young we don’t understand and we never will.
As a student newspaper we get that a lot. More than most of you will even know.
Between the hate mail, emails, comments and meetings that we have had to have over the last few years, we get plenty of criticism. Not to even mention calls from attorneys and parents.
I will say, my favorite thing is hearing ‘their opinions don’t even matter’ but then they spend 20 minutes talking about it.
I once woke up to a text saying that if I was threatened to send them to our adviser.
How crazy can people get over the opinions of a bunch of college students, right?
Well we are definitely not just college students, not that any of your opinions matter less, but we are all nationally and regionally awarded journalists.
If you ever step foot in the newsroom you will see three walls of awards, as well as awards that decorate the second floor of Old Admin. And those are just the overall staff awards. We have each taken home multiple for our work.
My point is, we are a group of strong journalists.
We put our souls into this newspaper, there are some weeks where we spend more than 35 hours working. It is not poorly done or just made up, we find facts and we use them to form strong opinions or write good news stories.
Before I continue, I want to make it clear that we are human and we still make mistakes, both grammar and spelling. But very, very rarely do we make a factual error.
I also want it to be known that we are not here to make the college look good. Period. We have a public relations department, the ones that send out the CSC Today emails, that is their job.
We are here for you, the students, to let you know what is going on, even if the college isn’t. We want you to have the maximum amount of knowledge possible.
That being said, our opinions are our own and the editorials are voted on by the majority of the staff (you can find the staff listing to the right of most editorials).
We are always doing our best, we have done a ton of work behind the scenes and have also been able to bring to light a lot of stories.
So here’s the deal, we have no plans of backing down. We will continue to write stories about things that people may want to stay hidden. We are going to share with you what we know and continue to write opinions that not everybody is going to like. We are only working with the facts that are given to us. So the next time someone complains that we don’t know what we are talking about. Maybe they should be doing more talking.
Kamryn Kozisek
