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Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America

posted by mrpg on Tuesday July 11 2017, @04:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the Can't-fix-it dept.

aristarchus writes:

In a shift from a mere couple of years ago, when a majority of Republican-Americans thought that higher education was a good thing, the majority of them now believe the opposite.

A Pew Research Center survey published Monday revealed voters have grown apart in their support of secondary education since the 2016 presidential election season, when a majority of Democratic and Republican Americans agreed the nation’s universities serve as a benefit for the U.S. Whereas 54 percent of Republicans said "colleges and universities had a positive impact on the way things were going in the country" in 2015, the majority now believe the opposite, with 58 percent saying such institutions negatively impact the state of the union.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Tuesday July 11 2017, @10:13AM (1 child)

    by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Tuesday July 11 2017, @10:13AM (#537524)

    MBAs raise the price of everything. And let's not forget CEOs getting paid tens of millions of dollars (or even more) by adding very little value (besides buying other companies to wreck).

    In other words MBAs and multimillion dollar CEOs add an overall negative value to the economy.

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    It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @03:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @03:00AM (#537931)

    Yes and no. You need people who know how to steer the ship, but if you let them stomp their feet like spoiled little children they just might poke some holes in the deck and cause the ship to sink.