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BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 12:59 PM Mar 2016

Bill & Hillary and Laureate University, part 2

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-04-24/bill-clinton-leaves-for-profit-college-position

<Former President Bill Clinton’s role at a for-profit higher education company will end Friday, just as his wife has begun questioning some of the industry’s practices from the campaign trail.

Since 2010, Clinton has been honorary chancellor of Laureate International Universities, part of Laureate Education Inc. the world’s largest chain of for-profit colleges. His departure has nothing to do with the campaign, the company and the former president's office said, telling Bloomberg that he had agreed to a five-year term in the position.>

<Clinton's view of the industry fits with her efforts to be seen by voters as a populist defender of the working class. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts,has been outspoken about her concerns, blasting the federal government for "currently subsidizing a for-profit industry that is ripping off young people."

Laureate hired Bill Clinton just as the Obama administration was working on its first try at controversial regulations on “gainful employment” and as then-Senate HELP Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) launched a series of hearings scrutinizing the industry, which relies heavily on federal student aid grants and loans for revenue.>
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Bill & Hillary and Laureate University, part 2 (Original Post) BernieforPres2016 Mar 2016 OP
how can those two stand each other? Merryland Mar 2016 #1
I think there's a clue in there somewhere HassleCat Mar 2016 #2
Do you think there could be any connection BernieforPres2016 Mar 2016 #4
ice cream doesn't make them fat tk2kewl Mar 2016 #6
knr nt PonyUp Mar 2016 #3
K & R AzDar Mar 2016 #5
 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
2. I think there's a clue in there somewhere
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 01:05 PM
Mar 2016

Why does Clinton oppose free education at public colleges and universities?

BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)
4. Do you think there could be any connection
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 01:10 PM
Mar 2016

between the Clinton's money grubbing from the sham "for profit university" industry backed and partially owned by Wall Street and her opposition to Bernie's proposal for free tuition to in state public universities? Surely not.

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