Re: COVID-19 - Part 2
Infrastructure should have gotten done, but it died on the rocks of "Russia Russia Russia" and the phony Ukraine whistleblower impeachment gambit, which BTW Congress was still wasting its time with when COVID-19 was gradually sneaking up on us all.
Education funding - at the college/university level, it arguably is THE problem, since the increases in the cost of higher education has FAR outstripped the increased costs of living everywhere else in the economy. Student loan availability, tuition rising well over the cost of living, over 40 years now at least (first year tuition at a private college in '79 for me was $3,750 - it was almost double when in graduated in '83, and it's hardly abated since), higher education has been subsidized by the Feds, and prestigious colleges amass billion dollar endowments, while students often leave mired in six figure debts that stymie things like families, homes, etc.
The best thing the Federal Government can do education-wise is to reallocate funds for colleges instead to pre-college schooling.
And yes, I just posted that on US College Hockey Online. I sense a long suspension looms …
Originally posted by Slap Shot
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Education funding - at the college/university level, it arguably is THE problem, since the increases in the cost of higher education has FAR outstripped the increased costs of living everywhere else in the economy. Student loan availability, tuition rising well over the cost of living, over 40 years now at least (first year tuition at a private college in '79 for me was $3,750 - it was almost double when in graduated in '83, and it's hardly abated since), higher education has been subsidized by the Feds, and prestigious colleges amass billion dollar endowments, while students often leave mired in six figure debts that stymie things like families, homes, etc.
The best thing the Federal Government can do education-wise is to reallocate funds for colleges instead to pre-college schooling.
And yes, I just posted that on US College Hockey Online. I sense a long suspension looms …
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