DeVos, who is related by marriage to the Amway multilevel marketing empire and sister of Erik Prince, founder of the mercenary military firm Blackwater, also condemned Biden’s proposal for tuition-free college as “a socialist takeover of higher education.” Of course that overlooks the tradition of free public university education that was once exemplified by the University of California, which was once guaranteed tuition-free by the state constitution. That tradition is relevant to the student debt debate, because one factor in the debt explosion is the withdrawal of government support for public higher education. “States withdrew funding for public higher ed, tuition went up, and the whole premise of higher education went from being a public good to a private good…” America is a land that never ceases to pay lip service to the value of education and almost never manages to back up its honeyed words with the resources necessary to make them true.

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by Michael Hiltzik, The Los Angeles Times.

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