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A comment on Warren’s Higher Education Plan: Cancel Student Debt and Eliminate Tuition. Parent comment

Re:Warren’s Higher Education Plan: Cancel Student Debt and E... by gerbal on Monday April 22, 2019 @04:36PM (#19722720)
No, you subsidize people doing poorly paid but highly educated work in fields like public health work, education, and non-profits. You also subsidize people getting the basic education required for many jobs.
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Re:Warren’s Higher Education Plan: Cancel Student Debt and E... by 0815test on Monday April 22, 2019 @04:40PM (#19722756)
Many jobs do not require the "basic education" that a college degree provides - a HS education is entirely sufficient, and was widely regarded as such even as late as a few decades ago. It's a wasteful credential-chasing arms race, and the more we keep subsidizing it the worse it will get for everyone involved.
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