FACT: The number of students who have to go into debt to get a Bachelor’s degree has risen from 45% in 1993 to 94% today.
(Source: think-progress)
As Washington lobbyists endeavor to kill a proposed bill to reduce the interest rates on student debt, federal loans remain readily available, and so colleges go right on increasing their tuition.
Meanwhile, corporations hold $2 trillion in cash while looking for investments and employees in foreign countries, and American students are forced to accept menial positions. Yet delusions persist about our new generation of would-be workers. Conservatives are all bubbly about today’s young entrepreneurs creating their own jobs — jobs that “don’t yet exist.
Five Facts That Put America to Shame (via nirvikalpa)
(Source: humanformat)
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