It is the younger generation coming out in huge crowds.. They are tired of the corruptness and price of their education .
Agreed.....In my generation, us young folks rallied against the war on Nam....We had a substantial stake in that disaster. Hopefully, today's younger generation will also realize that, not only the ridiculous cost of student loans, but the corrupt economic system must be ameliorated if they wish for (at least) the same standard of living of us parents.
The cost of student loans....is a product of government interference in the higher education system.
It isn't the loans that are the problem. It isn't even the high cost of advanced education..
The problems are....
1. there are over 1.8 million BA/BS degrees earned in 2011/12 and another 750k MA/MS degrees....Less than HALF were earned in Business, Engineering, Math and Health sciences. The rest were all liberal arts and humanities, That means more than 1.2 million degrees earned by people who will struggle to find jobs that will allow them to make an income at a level that will enable them to not only run a household, but to pay off the loans they owe to the American taxpayers.
The problem is there are far too many people earning college degrees when instead they should be deferring formal education to gaining experience in the working adult world....
The insistence that college is for everyone who wants to attend is a problem.....
And now with Sanders claiming he will provide a college education free of charge to the student will have people believing that the doors are open to whomever wants to go....That is not true. Colleges and Universities still have and will continue to have admissions standards. I wonder what Sanders is going to say to the kids looking for the miracle of free college are going to say about that?