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The Clark Howard Podcast

05.12.22 Education: Going The Distance / Google’s New Privacy Tool

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

College isn’t the only path to success. Clark summarizes the skills education landscape including Google IT training programs. But for many, college is the path to career fulfillment. Why many are dropping out today, and ways to go the distance at lower cost and get that degree. Clark also talks about internet privacy and U.S. tech giants’ initiatives vs. Europe’s Right to Be Forgotten. Now there’s a way to opt-out of having your personal information searchable on Google. College Dropout Rate: Segment 1 Ask Clark: Segment 2 Google Privacy Tool: Segment 3 Ask Clark: Segment 4 Mentioned on the show: 4 Steps To Stop Google From Showing Your Personal Information The Top 5 Benefits of Community College 9 Ways To Pay for College Without Student Loans Where Do I Look for Affordable and Legitimate Online Schools? 7 Things to Know About Amica Insurance Best and Worst Home Insurance Companies Submit a complaint | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Clark.com resources Episode transcripts Clark.com daily money newsletter Consumer Action Center Free Helpline: 636-492-5275 Learn more about your ad choices: megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

0:10.0

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is

0:13.6

then sweaty armpits because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps

0:17.9

and heath and you get to the top and you're like and then you can see the breath

0:21.6

but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

0:25.0

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

0:35.0

It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show where our mission is to serve you

0:40.7

and empower you so you make better financial decisions in your life. One of the biggest decisions

0:47.4

we make in our lives is education and I'm going to tell you that there's a pattern that's

0:55.2

clear around the country and that's people who enroll in college dropping out in numbers

1:03.4

that are much larger than historically true and later there's something they've had in Europe

1:10.8

for years. It's called the right to be forgotten. We don't have anything like that yet

1:17.1

in the United States. I'm talking about on the internet, on social media, all that.

1:22.4

I want to tell you that there are starting to be more and more tools in the marketplace

1:27.6

that give you the power over more of your information that's just loose out there

1:33.5

than we've had in the past. I want to tell you what you can do. But right now I want to talk about

1:40.1

something that is distressing for me. Not that there are people choosing not to go on a path

1:46.6

to college because today there are a lot of ways to get a well-paying job that don't involve college.

1:57.7

College is as a credential in a lot of places is no longer the thing that's required.

2:07.2

It used to be like it was just like, well you can only apply for this job if you're a college

2:11.9

graduate. Now a lot of employers have moved beyond that to a more scalpel kind of approach,

2:19.0

which is, hey do you have the skill we're looking for, the skills we need for a job that you're

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