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In the Bangor Daily News, Eric Collins reflects on the recent student load bill in Congress and why it included so many bad ideas.
It’s all about ROI, folks, and not ROI on educaton–ROI on the loans.
Yet how is college supposed to become affordable?
There are plenty of solutions. When we have the greatest concentration of wealth in our nation’s history in the hands of a few and a bloated military budget used to fund the destructive atrocities of violence and war in the name of U.S. global hegemony, then it is clear we have the money to fund higher education. What prevents us from doing that is our priorities.
Prioritizing the interests of the wealthy over those of the masses is reflective of deeper, structural and ideological problems in our society.
