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The NY Times did a seven-part series last year that I felt was a much more thorough and nuanced treatment of the topic: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/busine
by scott_s 13y ago
The NY Times did a seven-part series last year that I felt was a much more thorough and nuanced treatment of the topic: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/business/student-loans-weighing-down-a-generation-with-heavy-debt.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/business/student-loans-wei...
- scott_s 13y agoAlso, "For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall": http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/education/poor-students-struggle-as-class-plays-a-greater-role-in-success.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/education/poor-students-st...
- danielweber 13y agoI said it before, but this points it out all the more: the educational credential race hurts the poor the hardest. Even if college was cheap and guaranteed to graduate, it would still be the poor who could least end up able to sacrifice 4-9 years of their life on it.