New poll shows that majority of Americans now think college degrees are not worth the cost: ‘Wake-up call’

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New poll shows that majority of Americans now think college degrees are not worth the cost: ‘Wake-up call’
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A new Wall Street Journal-NORC poll revealed that a majority of Americans no longer see college degrees as being worth the cost of getting them.

A panel of Americans join 'Fox & Friends' to discuss a recent poll showing traditional American values like faith, patriotism and hard work now hold less importance to the public.-NORC poll, more than half of Americans don’t believe a college degree is worth the money anymore.

A general view during the college commencement ceremony for Westminister College on June 1, 2013 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Wall Street Journal explained that skepticism of getting a degree is strongest among young adults in the 18 to 34 age range. It found that"people with Experts, like American Council on Education President Ted Mitchell, find this to be bad news for the higher education industry.Mitchell told the outlet,"These findings are indeed sobering for all of us in higher education, and in some ways, a wake-up call. We need to do a better job at storytelling, but we need to improve our practice, that seems to me to be the only recipe I know of regaining public confidence.

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