{"id":2892,"date":"2024-02-27T14:01:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T22:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2024-02-27T14:01:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T22:01:34","slug":"should-taxpayers-subsidize-study-abroad-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/02\/27\/should-taxpayers-subsidize-study-abroad-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Should taxpayers subsidize study abroad programs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I agree that more students should study abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>72% of students say they want to study abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors write: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Today, a few years removed from the crippling effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, we remain far short of this goal, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nafsa.org\/sites\/default\/files\/media\/document\/State%20by%20State%2021_22%20study%20abroad%20statistics.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">less than 200,000 students studying abroad, amounting to 1 percent of all U.S. college students<\/a>.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/careers\/opinion-us-college-students-need-to-go-away-why-study-abroad-is-essential-to-our-future\/ar-BB1iVJZn?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=32a36c1adb8e41ef957426c61504e2e7&amp;ei=226\">Opinion: US college students need to go away: Why study abroad is essential to our future (msn.com)<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Click through and see that the estimate is for the 12 month school year in 2021-2022. In fact, since that is PER YEAR and college takes 4-5 years for most, and most students study for one semester (and a few for a full year) over any time in that 4-5 years, the total % is >1% and likely less than 4%. The 1% figure used above is not correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors want the Federal taxpayers to subsidize study abroad programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should taxpayers subsidize study abroad programs for college students? That&#8217;s what the authors of this column advocate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,20,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-study-intern-abroad","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}