• capital_sniff@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Because Reagan opened the flood gates on raising the cost of higher education. Then the boomer generation, well known for pulling the ladder up behind themselves, saw this and ran with it. Also they aren’t the ones going to school anymore. Combine that with the general hatred for education and science republicans have and we have super expensive schools.

    My last two years of college had over 10% tuition increases to pay for a new stadium…