05/06/2024
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"we have the cost of education that has been skyrocketing while we have been disinvesting in higher education"
"the maximum Pell Grant was about 76 percent of the cost of attendance for a 4-year school, about 76 percent in 1980."
"So, in other words, in the last 10 years, since I got out of school, the aggregated amount of student debt in this country has tripled in the last 10 years?"
"I see that as sort of the opposite of what we actually need to be doing in a time like this."