"We are in danger of an educated proletariat."

[Formerly Black Trash]

How the Threat of an 'Educated Proletariat' Created the Student Debt Crisis | BestColleges

The roots of the student debt crisis go back to a promise broken decades ago –– when politicians put the burden of funding higher education onto students.

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Someone associated with Regan really said this publicly?

Wow

Quote is from his adviser Roger. A Freeman

 

[BaggerofTea]

That coming from a Reagan official isn't shocking.

You should hear what a Nixon official said about why the war on drugs was created

 

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For decades, U.S. colleges and universities offered a debt-free route to a college degree. During those decades, most college graduates were white, Protestant men.


The demographics on campus began to change by the 1960s and 1970s, when new federal legislation guaranteed access to higher education regardless of race or sex.


As colleges became more diverse, tuition rates skyrocketed. At the same time, federal grants dwindled.

wow.

 

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double post