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Re:Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptyi... by digitaltrees on Thursday January 24, 2019 @08:53AM (#18988628)
The state paid a portion of the cost in the 1980s, so the $675 was only part of the cost. I would expect the cost for education hasn’t increased over time; rather the share has been shifted more greatly to the student.

To your last point, Society is going to pay in one way or another. We can subsidize tuition and benefit from an educated population, with greater innovation and culture that results; or we can have less growth, innovation, and poverty.

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Re:Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptyi... by dsajames on Thursday January 24, 2019 @09:18AM (#18988825)
Cost has increased. Health care is a huge part. Housing another. Higher pay to compete with industry another in select fields.
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Re:Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptyi... by drewg123 on Thursday January 24, 2019 @09:50AM (#18989116)
In a lot of cases, professorial pay has NOT kept up at state schools. My wife is a tenured stats prof at a mid-ranked state university like the one I attended. She makes far less than she did when she worked in a research position for the Fed. gov't, and less than 1/2 as much as she could make (and has made) in private industry as a data scientist.
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Re:Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptyi... by isostatic on Thursday January 24, 2019 @07:04PM (#18994306)
There are three views

1) Students pay the full cost 2) The taxpayer pays the full cost 3) The cost is shared

You're arguing for the latter. The trouble is the latter goes from everything from 1 cent a semester to $full_tutition - 1cent per semester, it's an option that can appeal to everyone.

How much should the taxpayer pay? How much should the student?

Personally I like the UK system, where the student pays if they make it big (get a job for netflix earning $500k a year you repay your entire loan), but you don't repay if you get a job in the local nursing home wiping someone's arse.

It's not a popular position, with both the right wing and left wing parties arguing against it (the left wing parties saying that taxes should rise to pay for stockbrokers' tuition, the right wing parties saying that taxes should rise to pay for stockbrokers' tuition)

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