More people are wondering whether its finally all worth it. Degrees, costs and benefits, its the inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. The cost of attending college has gone up in the past 40 years faster than the cost of just about anything else you buy. Look at family incomes in the 1970 with a little planning, americans could pay without economic stress. Now a family earning the Median Income would find it harder without serious saving beforehand or taking out loans. When you Factor Private colleges and universities, the tuition and housing costs are astronomical at a time when smaller number of students are finishing degrees in four years. Take those numbers, add in low starting salaries, a sizable serge of College Degree holders working in jobs that dont require degrees and you have the makings of the current anxiety that its just not worth it. Al jazeeras afnal jazeeras Allen Schauffler has spent time with those students. Getting a lot of emails like this one. Unf
Standards. In the mid to upper 60s already. 67 with full cloud cover at 7 00 a. M. Might get a sliver or two of sunshine today. Mid70s by lunchtime and a risk of a few showers today. Well talk about commuter impact of the rain drops. As youre headed through stafford, we have turned red. Right now were expecting things to clear out of the way here. That really should ease. Old georgetown road and vista road. Were a little slow there because of lane blockages because of construction. A big look at the beltway. Inner loop and outer loop we have problems. A live look there looks good. David . All right. Thanks, melissa. Pope francis has arrived back in the vatican city. Easterly this morning he sent out this tweet. Quote, with my headlight felt thanks may the love of christ fill the people. Godblessamerica. Hundreds followed his journey and closely watched his every word. I will pray for you and your families. And i ask you please to pray for me. May god bless you all. God bless america. W
News 4 midday starts right now. First at the live desk, take a good look, video of president obama addressing World Leaders at the u. N. Moments ago. The president urged diplomacy, particularly defending the Iran Nuclear Deal and lifting the u. S. Embargo on cuba, getting clause from delegates there. He spoke about the danger of returning to old methods of addressing unrest around the world. I stand before you today believing in my core that we, the nations of the world, cannot return to the old ways of conflict and coercion. We cannot look backwards. We live in an integrated world, in company. We all have a stake in each others success. We cannot turn back those forces of integration. Were also closely watching developments out of the meeting scheduled between the president and russias president , Vladimir Putin, who have been at odds over russias involvement in ukraine and the ongoing conflict in syria. Also leaders from poland, china, and jordan are set to speak before putin takes t
Time as mayor. He represented the eighth ward until the time of his death. Is Memorial Service scheduled to get underway at 11 00 this morning eastern time. We understand that it is running a bit behind schedule. Thel then, discussion on job numbers from washington journal. We are joined by the wall street journal economics reporter. , you talked about the data points beyond the topline numbers. The key one was wage growth. Lets start with that. Guest there was a lot of attention to the headline , 321,000n the report new jobs created. The most significant number in the report is nine. Muchcents, thats how earnings went up. It is twice the average the we have seen per month over the last year. On au look at it yearoveryear basis, it is not as impressive. Increase. Om a 2. 1 economists have been watching for any sign that wages are going to pick up. They have been so slow to grow over this recovery. We have different measures that show that they may be picking up. This is the first time
Welcome. Im bob abernethy. Its good to have you with us. Amid ongoing tensions in ferguson, missouri, faith leaders continued to pray for peace and call for justice. Local clergy have tried to maintain calm after the Fatal Shooting of an unarmed africanamerican teenager, michael brown. The shooting sparked two weeks of protests and sometimes violent confrontations with police. Interfaith groups have sponsored peaceful marches and prayer vigils in ferguson urging an expedited grand jury hearing as well as longterm changes in police procedures. Several churches hosted town Hall Meetings for Community Members to air their frustrations. Across the nation, many faith groups are holding special services to show their solidarity with ferguson. Well have more on some of the broader moral issues highlighted by the events there in a few minutes. Meanwhile, religious leaders in new york continued to raise concerns about the case of eric garner, a black man, who died last month after having been p