1. Unexplained and unsupported.
2. Agreed. What do you propose?
3. Unexplained and unsupported. What of past stimulus packages, means that we can't renegotiate bad trades deals, and thus see an increase in manufacturing jobs?
2) The federal government is funding the education of people who will not get skills that are in demand.but will get debts that persist.
If students are being turned into debt slaves, how is it that the govt is paying for their education?
In many ways.
The money streams from the governments to the colleges range from student loans, to research grants, to student aid, to direct funding, to numerous paths I'm sure don't even know about.
The ways that this stream of money gets and keeps students in college but does NOT result in usable skills and/or complete coverage of expenses are just as numerous.
The bias of regulation towards ever higher levels of certification, with little regard for expense is also a way the government contributes to the problem.
I'm pretty sure student loans have to be paid back and a lot of that is to private corporate lenders. Funding for research is not paying for kids to go to college at all, it is for research, and the govt is funding less and less of that over time than they used to. Ask any serious researcher who has to write grants for funding, it's seriously drying/dried up. I left a neuroscience drug discovery program at a major world renowned biomedical research university last April after 8 years there. They had partnerships with three major pharmaceutical companies and the Michael J Fox Foundation to fund their research. This is common. The big pharma industry has outsourced a lot of their early drug discovery efforts to university settings up to the drug development stage at which they then license the compound or molecule. I'm not sure how you came by the impression you have.
It's kind of difficult for me to figure out how we're supposed to be globally competitive with other advanced nations and societies that invest in their own societies when we won't. Other societies we would sneer "socialist" at make sure a college education is available to all. Other societies make sure health care is available to all. Because they hate our brand of predatory capitalism? Or perhaps because they understand that to be globally competitive they need an educated healthy population?
And how are our employers supposed to be globally competitive with foreign employers who don't have the healthcare costs of their workforce to contend with? And with much better healthcare outcomes for less cost?
1. Well over 17% of borrowers are in default.
2. Funding for research is money going into the university system.
3. My understanding is that most other advanced nations severely limit college education though tracking. That's way you get so much pressure for their version of SAT tests in Japan and South Korea for example, because their entire life will be determined by that one test, and the government standards/rules for college admissions.
4. NOT by funding degrees that should not be college degrees, nor by graduating large numbers of lawyers and social workers and art majors.
1. so what's your point?
2. where do you want research finding to go? I told you, a lot of that now is private corporate funding
3. germany for example does not.
4. private loans are business, they go where a lender sees a profit. universities are not tech schools.
1. The federal government is funding the education of people who will not get skills that are in demand.but will get debts that persist.
2. I want more accountability from universities on the ever increasing expense of education. And to find ways to stop or reverse it.
3. Germany has recently detracked. I'm still not aware that other nations have higher percentages of college admissions.
4. Sure, lenders go where they see a profit. That they managed to squeeze out a profit from the students they lend money to does not mean that having more lawyers or social workers is really helping the US compete.