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Ep 37: Caitlin Zaloom on the Explosion of Student Debt

Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar

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The department of education is this complex bureaucratic machine with all kinds of guide lines that have been put togetheroe or decades, and are probably sort of held together by rubber bands. I mean, s a problem of technocracy, frankly. It's the idea that people in a buracotic office somewhere can continue to tinker with policy issues in ways that will quotqo fix the problem, which only make it more complicated. Good policy is simple policy. It is straightforward policy. And i am very encouraged by is actually new mexico's very recent shift toward providing free education for all new mexicans as a matter of state citizenship.

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