Posted on 06/09/2014 6:33:02 AM PDT by Loud Mime
Tuition is up 1,200 percent in 30 years. Here's why you're unemployed, crushed by debt -- and no one is helping
The price of a year at college has increased by more than 1,200 percent over the last 30 years, far outpacing any other price the government tracks: food, housing, cars, gasoline, TVs, you name it. Tuition has increased at a rate double that of medical care, usually considered the most expensive of human necessities. It has outstripped any reasonable expectation people might have had for investments over the period. And, as we all know, it has crushed a generation of college grads with debt. Today, thanks to those enormous tuition prices, young Americans routinely start adult life with a burden unknown to any previous cohort and whose ruinous effects we can only guess at.
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How about those degrees in "grievance studies"? About the only thing they seem to teach you is that all your problems are somebody else's fault, and you're entitled to reparations.
“Supporting education with tax dollars” IS “subsidies”!
What’s wrong with this person?
Yah... you do. Teaching Trans-Gendered Aleutian Folk Music to Aleutian Natives who were unaware they had trans-gendered members of their tribe. . . or that they had folk music. . . it's hard to play flutes at 30º below zero or tap dance in mukluks.
No doubt there are many useless degrees. The hard sciences, agriculture, molecular biology, medicine, math, business management, and engineering are all marketable degrees.
There are useless degrees and worse than useless academics teaching those courses. Government subsidies will insure they continue to be employed, on our dime.
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