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Seems like not a lot has changed since I went to school. It seems like universities cater for the very poor and the very rich. The middle class is left to carry
by yardie 17y ago
Seems like not a lot has changed since I went to school. It seems like universities cater for the very poor and the very rich. The middle class is left to carry the brunt of education costs.
Also, welfare isn't indefinite. Most states require you to take a job, any job, or they reduce your benefits. This is the legislation that came out of the Clinton era (when Gingrich was claiming welfare queens were living it up by having 7-10 kids). I'm glad that I'm still young and healthy. It's one thing to drop COBRA in your 20s, quite another to do it in your 40s.
- jbooth 17y agoIt's not specific to universities. Go take a look at a chart of middle class salaries over the last 30 years, adjusted for inflation. Looks awfully flat, right?
- smokinn 17y agoElizabeth Warren wrote an excellent article about that last year: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-warren/america-without-a-middle_b_377829.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-warren/america-witho...
- gruseom 17y agoThat is a good article, thanks. Every time I hear/read something by Elizabeth Warren I come away thinking that she is a voice of unusual sanity. Pity that her oversight work isn't amounting to anything.
- barrkel 17y agoThe middle class generally pays the brunt of taxes everywhere. The poor don't have enough money, while the rich are too powerful and too mobile, besides having wealth locked up in capital structures that would also hurt businesses to tax.