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I think a New Deal style fund for infrastructure and human capital investment projects would be fantastic. Some ideas... Government will pay your former salar
by epicureanideal 7y ago
I think a New Deal style fund for infrastructure and human capital investment projects would be fantastic.
Some ideas...
Government will pay your former salary if you attend a Masters or PhD program and are succeeding there.
Delay recent bachelors grads entering the workforce by heavily subsidizing Masters degrees and PhDs in STEM. (Only others if we must, personally I think social sciences are currently acting as a destructive force in our society and are not behaving as academics but as ideological advocates.)
Massively increase STEM research and development funding.
Free technical and trade schools.
More ideas:
Subsidize universities putting their courses online for accredited degrees.
Subsidize private tutors for all subjects for K-12 kids, creating a large demand for private tutors. Require a bachelors degree that includes the subject to be tutored.
Provide funding to rebuild any manufacturing infrastructure that has been lost in the last 50 years, or just to build more. Especially designed in ways that manufacturing plants can operate safely for their workers in pandemic conditions.
- MattGaiser 7y agoAren’t most decent Masters and PhD programs paid already? My friends in PhD programs are paid a stipend. It’s not an industry level wage if that is what you were meaning, but they certainly don’t pay anything to be there.
- epicureanideal 7y agoYes, I mean to make up for the opportunity cost of not working. Even if the PhD stipend is around $40-50k, that's nowhere near an industry salary that may be needed to support a family, mortgage, and so on.