Higher Ed Crisis w/ Dennis Hogan
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What's the Scope of the Declining Aid for Colleges and Universities?
State and federal investment in higher education has been declining for decades. John Avlon: The government hasn't given money to colleges, it's just offloaded the debt onto students. He says this serves a disciplinary function by loading students up with so much debt that they don't really feel like they can engage in radical social activism.Avlon: If we make them indebted, then they can't be radicals. But this is certainly an unintended effect.
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