The Self-Serving Apologists For Student Debt-Serfdom
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,
Mankiw's claim that college costs are the inevitable result of Baumol's Disease is pure self-serving rubbish.
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,
Mankiw's claim that college costs are the inevitable result of Baumol's Disease is pure self-serving rubbish.
Robby Soave highlights a perfectly horrible proposal that may become policy at American University. Excerpt:
A South African mayor has awarded 16 young women scholarships for college education based on a virginity test. The mayor hopes this may encourage other young people to be “pure and focus on school.” The move is intended to encourage other young people to continue with their higher education and remain focused on achieving a college degree or certificate instead of a pregnancy.
Last summer, Corinthian Colleges closed its doors amid government scrutiny of for-profit colleges.
The school - which had been the recipient of some $1.5 billion in annual federal aid funding - was variously accused of employing deceptive marketing practices, falsifying job placement records, and lying about graduation rates.
On December 16, 2014, seven gunmen from the Pakistan Taliban stormed the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan.
The shooters murdered 144 people, walking desk to desk and executing children aged 12 to 16. "Our men attacked the school and killed children of army personnel - not civilians,” TTP leader Maulana Fazlullah said, as though that somehow justified the massacre. “They asked about their identity before killing them [and] these people will always be our target and we will kill them in the streets, markets, everywhere,” he added.