One of my favorite is record college debt. Why is that? Who is responsible for that?
Could it be the lovely liberal institutions who have jacked up tuition rates to obscene levels in conjunction with govt providing nearly unlimited loans.
Often for degrees that never had a snowballs chance in hell of providing income to pay off these loans, and the narrative that everyone needs a degree even if it is in ancient Egyptian lesbian arts studies. In fact any degree that ends in studies.
To be clear I am not giving a pass to students and parents who signed the papers and signed up for these “degree “ programs. they are as responsible for their loans just as people who could not afford homes were given loans they had no chance in paying off(another problem created by government IMO)
Starting out your adult life with debt you can’t pay off, degrees that are worthless, and indoctrination that you are entitled and your problems are the fault of others makes for a fine recipe for disaster
One of my sons joined the military and got a degree in business administration, and has done well though the job he got was not helped non one bit by the degree. Anyone off the street could have learned his job without the degree, as is often the case the degree is just a way to limit application pool
The other two became lineman. Hard job, but no debt and good income that can’t be outsourced. BTW son who went to college got education paid for through military service, deployed twice to Middle East and learned more from those experiences than he did in any college class.
Last bit of rant, I went to college in 1980 for mechanical engineering, tuition was 299 per qtr, 14 credits and above was 299. Did three years, had enough joined the military and spent 39 years there and loved it
lol just my 2 cents
> degrees that never had a snowballs chance in hell of providing income to pay off these loans <
Part of the problem is that too many students never do their due diligence. But I’d rank ahead of that the shameless lying on the part of colleges. So if a naive 18 year old picks a worthless major, his advisor will tell him what a great choice that is.
Gotta keep up enrollment in those worthless departments.