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I mean... American minimum wage comes out to $1256 monthly (assuming full-time, and that's pre-tax). Community college comes in pretty cheap at $450 a month on average, but four year universities come up to $4,800 on average (assuming full-time enrollment for both). The cheapest MD programs I can find are still close to twice the minimum wage, and that's assuming you get in-state tuition, since out of state is usually 2-3x more.
And that doesn't include books and other necessary materials.
Try $290 monthly minimum wage. This is Brazil not America in the article. Unless you're saying It's better ratio of wage to tuition than America, which is not hard
It's about the same is what I was saying, yeah