That's a difficult question to answer. In the long term it's in the country's best interest for the government to subsidize college education, but perhaps not a

That's a difficult question to answer. In the long term it's in the country's best interest for the government to subsidize college education, but perhaps not all degrees should be eligible. The basketweaving degree mentioned here is a terrible example because there are legitimate degrees in fields where the average income makes it difficult or impossible to pay back the student loans to get it (Psychology, Early Childhood Education) - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/09/10/219372252/the-most-and-least-lucrative-college-majors-in-1-graph http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/09/10/219372252/the-most...