I know every European seems to ask this of every American but what is the resistance to a welfare state? if you look at a government as investing in its citizens like a VC fund, then providing education and medical care is sensible, and some will turn out fine and others will be Bezos and then you can get your investment back via tax. I am honestly trying to avoid the flame war here - but I do it know how else to fra…
The problem is that many US universities are private. So when the government puts money into loans and grants for students, the universities just raise tuition, rather than expanding to accept more students. In the end it's just a transfer from the public to university administrators. To really expand access to education we'd have to have many more public universities. And anyway, the problem with education isn't tha…
This is false. The cost of tuition at public universities has grown faster over the last 20 years than at private universities, for both in-state and out-of-state students.
The average tuition and fees at private National Universities have jumped 144%. Out-of-state tuition and fees at public National Universities have risen 171%. In-state tuition and fees at public National Universities have grown the most, increasing 211%.
Source: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-co...