College attendance used to be mandatory for only a handful of occupations, but that began to change around the 1980s when four-year degrees became compulsory for more jobs.
Since then, college tuition costs have skyrocketed.
According to Georgetown University, college tuition and fees have nearly tripled since 1980, rising by a cumulative 169%. Meanwhile, research from the Education Data Initiative found that average tuition costs are up 23 times since 1963.
The catch is Republicans want to make all education unattainable for all but the wealthy few. An ignorant populace is more easily controlled.
This problem started with Republicans’ crusade to destroy the value of public education in primary schools. It continued with making good jobs unattainable unless you could afford to be a student at a higher ed institution. It now further continues by making those degrees both unaffordable and worthless without unpaid internships to go with them.
And of course, when Democrats try to undo some of this damage, Republicans will have none of that. When Betsy Devos was in charge of the Department of Education under Trump, she did all she could to keep debt from being forgiven even after those borrowers met every condition for loan forgiveness.
It’s true that some college degrees aren’t all that marketable outside of very narrow circumstances. So Republicans will use that excuse to further hinder universities to be able to operate within their budgets, thus affecting all degrees from those institutions and not just art history degrees (apologies to anyone with such a degree, no shade meant here).
The catch is Republicans want to make all education unattainable for all but the wealthy few. An ignorant populace is more easily controlled.
This problem started with Republicans’ crusade to destroy the value of public education in primary schools. It continued with making good jobs unattainable unless you could afford to be a student at a higher ed institution. It now further continues by making those degrees both unaffordable and worthless without unpaid internships to go with them.
And of course, when Democrats try to undo some of this damage, Republicans will have none of that. When Betsy Devos was in charge of the Department of Education under Trump, she did all she could to keep debt from being forgiven even after those borrowers met every condition for loan forgiveness.
It’s true that some college degrees aren’t all that marketable outside of very narrow circumstances. So Republicans will use that excuse to further hinder universities to be able to operate within their budgets, thus affecting all degrees from those institutions and not just art history degrees (apologies to anyone with such a degree, no shade meant here).