Meanwhile, at least 43 states are cutting back on funding for public colleges and universities, and increasing tuitions and fees. This means many qualified young people won’t be able to attend. For example, the University of California has increased tuition by 32 percent and reduced freshman enrollment by 2,300 students; the California State University system cut enrollment by 40,000 students… Why have we allowed this to happen? Our young people – their capacities to think, understand, investigate and innovate – are America’s future. In the name of fiscal prudence we’re endangering that future. Maybe the answer is that America’s biggest corporations don’t especially care. They’re getting the talent they need all over the world… when big corporations and the wealthy demand tax cuts, and don’t particularly care about public education, the inevitable result is that most of America’s kids are vulnerable.

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by Robert Reich, The San Francisco Chronicle.

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