To churn out more workers with marketable skills, an increasing number of states are offering residents free tuition to community colleges and technical schools.
The move also is a reaction to fast-rising tuition costs — increases that stem, in part, from states reducing their financial support of public colleges and universities.
Morley Winograd, president of the Campaign for Free College Tuition, a Seattle-based nonprofit, described the movement as “the fastest-growing policy idea in the country” — one with bipartisan support.
“Everybody’s got cheap dirt — but do you have skilled workers?” Winograd said. “That’s the question states face as they recruit new industry.”
But the free tuition push hasn’t produced an economic bonanza for any of the pioneering cities—at least not yet — and some states have struggled to come up with the money to keep their end of the bargain.
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At least 1/3 of the students in college today have absolutely no business being there and are wasting their parents or taxpayers money.
ReplyDeleteAnytime I see articles about FREE college or FREE this/that/etc - it reminds me of a commercial from back in the 1970's that stated:
ReplyDelete"You can pay me now OR you can pay me later. Its up to you, but either way you will pay me!"
SMH.
I would not want my kids to go to college with all the wacko liberal idiots teaching their insane agenda. Colleges are not the teaching institutions they used to be.
ReplyDeleteIf the word "Free" is stated this is what you get. I guess we will have to pay for lunches for them too. Thank God my children are old enough to care for them self and did it without a hand out. I in my day did not get it or take any. We raised them to stand on their own or fall on their own. But was always there for them and yes we did help them on the way. I now have 2 kids that have never been jail and have stood on their own feet. Thank My Lord. (map)
ReplyDeleteSo many people think of the government as the source of this money.
ReplyDeleteYOU are the source. They take it from you in taxes to pay for the "free" stuff.
The college still has to be paid. And when there is 'government' money being tossed around, you can be sure that the tuition rates will rise as a result.
Give it to them for free.
ReplyDeleteThe college degree will be worth what was paid for it, and it will be about time these lofty stuffy institutions are knocked back down to earth.
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ReplyDeleteSorry. You are wrong.
You describe how the system used to work prior to 1971.
Money had to come from somewhere.
After the end of Bretton Woods, the US Government and the Federal Reserve Bank became a rogue counterfeiting criminal enterprise. Now they just print the money (type digits into a computer screen).
That's right. Literally out of thin air.
The US Dollar is a completely fiat currency.
It is backed by nothing.
Nada
Nothing
Zilch
More Democrat policies that are going to ruin cities and states.
ReplyDelete"To churn out more workers with marketable skills,..."
Just because you go to college and get a sheepskin it does not churn out workers with marketable skills. Take UMES for example. Unless you get a degree in Physical Therapy or Doctor of Pharmacy you will not be a marketable employee and that is a fact. You might be a more educated worker, technically speaking, but your sheepskin is only paper.