Fortunately, I was lucky enough I paid my way through undergraduate and almost all of graduate school. I say "almost" because I did have to take a student loan to student teach; there was no other way around it because the university wouldn't allow people to take jobs and work in the schools. It was too difficult to do.
Since I was shitcanned from WCSD four years ago, I have been unable to pay the loan off and it is on deferment. I'll probably have that thing deferred until I die.
Over the past two decades, states have cut the funding of public colleges and universities by a massive 26 percent, Demos reports. And this trend is accelerating, as the bipartisan policy of tax breaks for big business and the wealthy is paid for by the shredding of the nation’s social infrastructure. Between 2007 and 2011 alone, states cut 11.1 percent of higher education funding, $8.9 billion.
In addition to this shift in financial responsibility, placing the burden more heavily on the student, the US Department of Education reports that the average total per-year cost of a four-year public college has increased a staggering 90 percent, from $9,032 to $17,131.
The dirty secret in all of this, carefully hidden in the media, is the active role of the Democratic Party and specifically the Obama administration in the assault on higher education. At the most fundamental level, the Democrats have colluded with the Republicans in the systematic starvation of education while diverting society’s resources into endless wars, tax cuts for the rich, and bank and corporate bailouts.
Despite Obama’s claims that he is doing all he can to “make college more affordable,” he has implemented a whole battery of measures to attack student borrowers—a broadside attack on the young generation.
Another reason to reject him for re-election.
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