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: 4, Informative) by mcgrew on Tuesday July 11 2017, @04:26PM (2 children)
Well they would produce low skilled workers if a) we didn't pay them not to work
You must be Canadian or European, because in the US, AFDC (welfare) ended twenty five years ago with the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. We no longer pay people to not work. The only people who get federal benefits are children and the disabled. [wikipedia.org]
Oh, and corporations... we still have corporate welfare. An example is food stamps, which allow McDonalds and WalMart to pay starvation wages without their employees starving.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 11 2017, @05:19PM
Oh no, he's all-American. J-Mo is on record saying he wants the entire system burned down, and has a tendency to drop "dindunuffin" and other Stormfrontisms. He's irredeemable; he's gonna end up burning from the inside out for heaven knows how long after he dies, and then getting reincarnated poor and black.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday July 12 2017, @07:09AM
That was a missed opportunity. It should have been called the Personal Responsibility And Vocational Determinism Act.
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