Blue_true
Blue_true's JournalFree College and Sweden, Norway.
It is often posted on DU that Sweden and Norway offer "free" college to their citizens.
That is not true. Both countries offer free tuition, but students in both leave college in debt. The college debt to starting salary burden for a Swedish college graduate is higher that for a US post college man or woman after college. The last measurement that I found had Swedish grads having 77% of the debt that a US college grad has. I could not find a similar figure for Norway.
Why so much debt when tuition is free? Rent, food, transportation, entertainment. So in order to truly impact student debt, we have to impact those items by doing things such as building modern dorms that feel like real homes instead of bare rooms, and have low cost meal options for all students.
When we talk about "free" college and imply that Nordic students leave college with virtually no debt, we should have done some reading instead of listening to what politicians are saying. That could really help us in arguments with rightwingers.
Does anyone have insight on this question?
Has there ever been studies of certain diseases that look at a nominal rate from generation to generation, a nominal rate would be one adjusted for population growth.
Have such studies been done for various cancers, muscular problems, deadly allergies like nut allergies?
The reason that I ask this is some wondering that I did on the role of our modern diet, natural exercise rate changes (people used to do more manual work and got a workout from that), things like the air being full of low level electromagnetic waves today with modern communication, ect.
Here is my take on the democratic primary field.
Unless Joe make a huge mistake, he is likely in the driver's seat. That leaves second place.
I think second place comes down to Senator Sanders or Senator Warren and this is what I believe the dynamic is. Senator Warren is continuously creeping up on Senator Sanders. Because they share a lot of voters, those voters will soon need to make a choice, because of that, I believe the first and maybe second debate will be critical for both Senators, more so for Senator Sanders. If Senator Sanders don't have a solid debate, his support (except for the hardest core) likely goes to Senator Warren as the best option to Biden.
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