Take a look at what it used to cost to go to state schools before the republicans started cutting their budgets.
Free college of some kind is definitely a necessity for a modern knowledge economy that is moving ever further away from manufacturing and unskilled labour, particularly when quality post-secondary education is getting ever more unaffordable.
I remember the argument for state lottery's was they would go to the schools, what a lie
The US is towards the top of lists of countries by percent of adults with Bachelors degrees (with and without adjusting for age). Most of the world's best universities are located in America, and even our second- and third-tier schools would be top-tier in most other countries.
Though I definitely agree that there are many reasons underwriting terrible social mobility (for example, the prohibitive cost of living on all fronts plus stagnating wages and hand to mouth existences that interfere with human capital development, and prevents the poor and struggling middle class from rising above their station; social mobility is mostly a challenge for them, not so much the upper middle class and better: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/social-mobility-upwards-decline-usa-us-america-economics/), there's definitely more to it than that on the educational side of things; properly structured free college can be a powerful lever and incentive to steer educational/vocational interest towards degrees and accreditations needed by high skill industries which continue to struggle to find qualified workers, so I would argue that education remains a notable contributor to poor social mobility (and there is also the fact that post-secondary education is becoming ever more inaccessible between the increase of its cost, and the increased cost of virtually everything else).
Unfortunately this is the case; either the progressives end up domineering and provide the Federal conduit for such a constitutional amendment, or the most likely route will be a state ratification.
Must've been pre 70s, because they were the ones underwriting and petitioning Buckley v Valeo as per James Buckley; a particularly odious pro-plutocracy conservative.
Yup.
That's right, 1940's, 50's, 60's...
I have heard lots of lefties who think that is unfair and the rich shouldn't be allowed to do that
That's exactly what I'm saying; it's about more than just having a college degree; it's also about having the right skills that match ongoing demand in the economy: https://nationalskillscoalition.org/skills-mismatch/us-skills-mismatch/
"America is the least competent nation on the planet" is not a position I am willing to accept.
Oh well if some random unnamed people think that, let's all focus on that instead of what people in this thread actually say.
Has anyone said it on this thread-didn't see it. has it been said on this board before-absolutely
Well, great minds think alike, you're a great mind and I'm jammin' witcha.
Like that's what would happen. You'd distribute money to already wasting do-nothings (whether poor or leftwing politicians) instead of those who actually know how to make shit happen. How typical of you to say the same ****ing shit that we always hear. Nothing ever changes, no new ideas, just old worn-out feeble ideas that have been tried and failed countless times. Good luck, you'll need it. And BTW, once you take all that money, you better enjoy it, because in a couple years thereafter, there won't be an oil and gas industry for you to steal the profits from, because the govt is too ****ing stupid. This is just too ****ing stupid to even continue thinking about.
