Yesterday, Seth Frotman, the top government official (ombudsman) overseeing the $1.5 trillion student loan market resigned from the CFPB-- not just resigned, but resigned in protest over the Trump Regime's open hostility toward protecting the nation’s millions of student loan borrowers. His scathing resignation better pointed out that the Regime "has turned its back on young people and their financial futures."
In 2014 Oklahoma reelected conservative Republican Mary Fallin over conservative Democrat Joe Dorman 460,298 (55.8%) to 338,239 (41%). Although there have been some shocking recent special election wins by Democrats in Oklahoma, the state Senate has 39 Republicans and just 8 Democrats and the state House has 73 Republicans and 28 Democrats. The Oklahoma congressional delegation consists of 5 Republican congressmen and 2 Republican senators...
-by NoahThere's been a lot of discussion in the media about points one, two, and four of today's meme. There's even been some about point 3, especially when it comes to the medieval opinions of science that Republicans routinely express. However, the new Republican Tax Scam has an attack on education that hasn't really received the attention it deserves.
Most discussion of the Ryan/Trump tax bill is about how it will, overt time, raise taxes on the middle class to transfer immense wealth to the very wealthy. But there's a lot more in the details, scores of details that need to be addressed. Education is one. This is an incredibly anti-education document. And education is, after all, our country's future-- something Trump and Ryan have ever evidenced any interest in whatsoever. Higher education takes it in the neck from the bill... and all to make the very rich very much richer.
Thursday morning's tweet from Ro Khanna (D-CA)-- above-- is a good example of how someone can promote genuine economic populism. The program he, Bernie and virtually all progressives back to make state colleges free again is incredibly popular-- far more popular than Schumer's and Pelosi's recycled Papa John's Pizza slogan.
University of California, Berkeley, student Jack Palkovic, center, stands with others near a Berkeley College Republicans table in front of Sather Gate on campus in Berkeley, Calif., Feb. 2, 2017. (AP/Jeff Chiu)
Republicans have an increasingly dim view of colleges and universities and the effect those institutions have on the way things are going in the United States, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Monday.
The founders knew that free people would be free to prosper. Along these lines, the mere notion of a federal apprentice program smacks of massive government overreach, and worse, it’s unnecessary. If it makes financial sense for businesses to apprentice more workers, then they should do just that without the helping hand of President Trump.
During last week's the Major League Baseball Draft, high school phenom Hunter Greene was selected second overall by the Cincinnati Reds. His fastball has been clocked at 102 miles per hour and, at age 17, he has already been on the cover of Sports Illustrated. As a result of entering the draft, Greene will not be playing baseball in any capacity at the collegiate level. Good.
Parallels between the world of Orwell’s 1984 and our own are increasingly obvious. We live in an ever-growing surveillance state and higher education is fast becoming a place where students expect not to be faced with or to contend with controversial ideas but to be protected from them.
Bryan Caplan is a frequent contributor to FEE.org and a major intellectual force in both economics and political theory today. You can get a sense of his thought with this outstanding interview on the Rubin Report.
