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greatlaurel

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4. This has been going on very quietly since the Reagan era.
Fri Sep 12, 2014, 11:13 AM
Sep 2014

When state institutions of higher learning were targeted for defunding by the right wing, the corporate raiders came in and waved money at college presidents and boards of trustees. As long as the universities toed the corporate line, the money flows. A lot of research as been squelched very quietly so as to not offend the corporations and the wealthy donors.

The reason college students are in such terrible debt for college loans is the massive cutting of state support for higher education. It also makes for a more compliant work force, if the college educated are in massive, nondischargeable debt then they have to keep jobs. The desperate need to pay the debts, drives down wages.

It is maddening.

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