https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd en-us 2017-04-19 14:30:20 UTC 2017-05-13 03:27:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png ckcasey20 https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167029549 https://newrepublic.com/article/123022/case-against-free-college]]> 2017-04-19 14:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167029549 ckcasey20 https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167029606 Making college free for everyone would almost certainly mean giving far more money to students from richer families than from poorer ones.]]> 2017-04-19 14:39:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167029606 ckcasey20 https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167029965 At age nineteen, only around 20 percent of children from the poorest 2 percent of families in the country attend college. For the richest 2 percent of families, the same number is around 90 percent. ]]> 2017-04-19 14:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167029965 ckcasey20 https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167030230 In between these two extremes, college attendance rates climb practically straight up the income ladder: the richer your parents are, the greater the likelihood that you are in college at age nineteen. The relatively few poor kids who do attend college heavily cluster in two-year community colleges and cheaper, less selective four-year colleges, while richer kids are likely to attend more expensive four-year institutions.]]> 2017-04-19 14:41:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167030230 ckcasey20 https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167030420 At public colleges (the type we’d likely make free), students from the poorest fourth of the population currently pay no net tuition at either two-year or four-year institutions, while also receiving an average of $3,080 and $2,320 respectively to offset some of their annual living expenses. Richer students currently receive much fewer tuition and living grant benefits.]]> 2017-04-19 14:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167030420 ckcasey20 https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167030622 Students all over the United States owe more money than they have in their bank account. This phenomenon is due to the fact that colleges are too expensive to pay for, however free college is not the way to go.]]> 2017-04-19 14:42:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167030622 ckcasey20 https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167275883 Needless to say, such thinking is extremely damaging to a broader egalitarian project, even more so in some ways than its goal of setting aside a part of our national income for the inegalitarian aim of making college free. ]]> 2017-04-20 14:35:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167275883 ckcasey20 https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167276100 If we are actually going to push a free college agenda, it should not be under a restrictive students’ rights banner, but instead under a general pro-welfare banner. ]]> 2017-04-20 14:36:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167276100 ckcasey20 https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167276234  The goal of free college should not be to help students per se, but instead to bind them to a broader welfare benefit system. By presenting their tuition subsidies and living grants as indistinguishable from benefits for the disabled, the poor, the elderly, and so on, it may be possible to encourage wealthier students to support the welfare state and to undermine students’ future claims of entitlement to the high incomes that college graduates so often receive. ]]> 2017-04-20 14:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167276234 ckcasey20 https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167276434 After all, the college income premium would only be possible through the welfare benefits to which the rest of society—including those who never went to college—has contributed.]]> 2017-04-20 14:37:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167276434 ckcasey20 https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167276666 Without understanding and presenting student benefits as welfare handouts, a free college agenda has no real egalitarian purpose. Giving extra money to a class of disproportionately well-off people without securing any reciprocal benefit to poor and working-class people who so often do not attend college, all while valorizing the college student as a virtuous person individually deserving of such benefits, would be at worst destructive, and at best, totally pointless.]]> 2017-04-20 14:38:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ckcasey20/41yb39scmohd/wish/167276666