In Les Misérables, author Victor Hugo criticizes the injustices of the nineteenth century. Issues such as women’s rights, intergenerational conflict, cruelty of the justice system, and the failure of society’s institutions are all discussed in the novel, which is still resonate.
I have a four year degree from CSUN (California State University Northridge) in the San Fernando Valley. The first two years of my college experience was at a community college. The cost was $6.50 per semester. The two years at CSUN coast $42 per semester. The cost of a college degree was affordable for everyone.
I know, it was a long time ago but what happened? Why did the cost at the community college grow to $1238 per semester? CSUN now costs $7,064. I am not reporting on the cost of books or the cost or the cost of room and board.
It is no surprise that college attendance has resulted in high student debt. Since 1980, the total cost of both four-year public and four-year private college has nearly tripled, even after accounting for inflation. Federal support has not kept up: Pell Grants once covered nearly 80 percent of the cost of a four-year public college degree for students from working families, but now only cover a third. That has left many students from low- and middle-income families with no choice but to borrow if they want to get a degree. According to a Department of Education analysis, the typical undergraduate student with loans now graduates with nearly $25,000 in debt.
This country refuses to help its youth obtain a college education. Sean Hannity: “We have a lot of young people that work on my TV show, they’re not making a $125,000. They’re now eligible to get in some cases up to $20,000 and in other cases $10,000. This is New Green Deal radical socialism.”
The Rich don’t care about the rest of us. The philosophy is to hell with the Proletariat. After all they are just the working class.
The debt reduction by President Biden is a nice gesture but it does not address the issue of the excessive fees to obtain a degree.
Where was Donald Trump during those four years he was president?
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