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How can one achieve the American Dream if the one thing they need to realize it is being jeopardized? Education is the center of every dream. Through education, you gain knowledge, knowledge needed to build a career, to gain success. The search for knowledge comes at a price in this day in age. As the economy is suffering a major hardship, so is the rest of the world, including colleges and scholars on the search for a higher education. Colleges have increased the amount of tuition by 6.5% for public tuition and 4.4% for private colleges according to this year’ s College Board. The problem is as college tuition rises, grants and scholarships are also being cut. Some scholars cannot afford to pay for college. Some don’t have the means or necessities to get to college.

RAD is campaigning a fixed rate solution to college tuition cuts. RAD is proposing to government that fixed rates should become a state law. By this being enforced colleges have no choice but to follow the decree. Since colleges has to meet a certain amount of applicants each year to keep getting funding from the government this solution would help meet the standard. Each year freshman to college would have to pay the increased amount but don’t have to worry about their remaining years during college due to fixed rates. They would have to pay a set amount each year they attend the college of their choice. This would not only be appealing to college goers but it would help colleges reach their amount of applicants per year. This would not only help the college trustees but the college scholars themselves. This will help college students to budget. By doing fixed rates the student can calculate beforehand how much their monthly payments are and then they can budget accordingly. The other uplifting idea for fixed rates is the student never has to worry about their tuition increasing, it would always stay the same. It’s all good news for anyone stretching to borrow a lot of money in what looks like an increasingly uncertain economic climate, especially when you need to take out loans to pay for college. This would make the American Dream more sustainable because success is needed to make the modern dream today a reality. Everything that accumulates a lot of money requires a type of degree you can only get through higher education. If everyone has college access then many dreams can be realized. We must remember this generation is the future and that we must protect them and see to it that the have everything to change the world by fixing other issues like these.