Student Debt: Blame Law-Makers, Tax-Shirking Rich, War on Drugs, not Universities

[Ed Suspicious]

1. My adviser just yesterday reminded me that our state used to susidize our cost per

credit to the tune of 75%. That susidiy is now at around 25%. Tuition rises for a number of reasons, but perhaps the most agregious is the fact that states are pulling out of higher ed snd telling students if you want it, you pay for it. They don't say it out loud, but they say it with ever budget cut to higher ed. So now my state continues to cut funding while at the same time freezing tuition hikes , which is probably ok for me , but future generations will be receiving a lower quality product at the same time as they are finding their degrees carrying less weight in the workforce. This will have to exacerbate the situation making a master's degree the new bachelor's.