Reports of students who leave such schools with heavy debt, only to work in low-paying jobs, have prompted the Department of Education to propose regulations that would cut off federal financing to programs whose graduates have high debt-to-income ratios and low repayment rates.
Great article in the New York Times today on the scam of for-profit colleges, which sucks federal money from students and leaves them indebted and jobless.
As part of the celebrations surrounding Doonesbury’s 40th anniversary, Garry Wills has an excellent overview of the strip in the New York Review of Books. I think Doonesbury remains a monumental accomplishment. I read it every day, and I’m continually impressed with how Trudeau skewers the issues of the day while managing a large – and organic – cast of characters.
Here’s a recent fave: http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/archive/2010/11/04
The Chicago Reader’s Ben Joravsky sums up my determination to hold my nose and vote for Quinn and Giannoulias in Illinois.
This headline pretty much wraps up my concerns about the coming election: Democrats: ‘If We’re Gonna Lose, Let’s Go Down Running Away From Every Legislative Accomplishment We’ve Made’
As the Chicago Sun-Times shares, student-loan debt is at an all-time high.