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The U.S. has a really helpful student loan repayment program — and no one's using it: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-07/the-u-dot-s-dot-has-a-rea

• ChuckMcM 13y ago
  Which isn't highlighted because the narrative that is not "Hey we are helping people get college educations" the narrative is "Rich people can afford to send their kids to school, poor people can't, its increasing the divide between the haves and the have-nots." That second narrative gets you rage views and votes for office, pretty much without regard with evidence to the contrary. Students can get a college degree at state schools for about the same cost as buying a new car, and on much more favorable loan terms. That said, there are lots of ways we could improve how we grant student aid, in my last letter to my Senators I suggested that providing need-blind aid for STEM degrees (Creating in demand workers and part of the alleged worker shortage) would serve the double benefit of both getting people college degrees, and getting employers the legal resident college graduates they seem to so urgently desire. It is a simple idea but if you subscribe to the idea that tax payer funds should be allocated for the improvement of the citizenry and society, having a larger qualified worker pool seems to meet that requirement.