I generally agree here. I'm not for complete abolishment of student loans. I think students needs some skin in the game. But the cycle of more expensive tuition / bigger loans definitely needs to be changed.1) far fewer jobs should require college degrees than currently do. Doubly so for master’s degrees.
2) the answer is to publicly fund education and abolish student loans. If someone wants to go to NYU they can pay for it themselves. Otherwise state school will be sufficient.
There are too many mostly worthless degrees costing 10's of thousands of dollars. And too much of the idea that you must have a degree or at least a four year degree or you're useless.
Maybe something like an inexpensive 2 year trade / community college type program that is mostly funded by public funds. Four year public programs would be cheaper but not free. If you transferred in from one of the two year programs you're not going to come out of them with 10's of thousands of dollars in debt.
There are too many teens that are told they must follow their dreams and go to college with no idea how expensive it is, and how many of the degrees don't pay off at the end of the day. And that's assuming you even get a degree.
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