Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

... if you don't enroll those most at risk of failing to graduate, you'll be disproportionately blocking out Black and Hispanic students and people from lower income families. This is exactly what the for-profit college lobbyists say about why we should be nice to them. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 21, 2021 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

First he says it's not true that such students end up worse off financially — but he concedes to get that result you need to ignore the for-profit sector which is a lot of schools. Then he adds an equity argument ... — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 21, 2021 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

And that in turn is part of the story of how we got the huge racial gap in student loan burden that we see. So I agree with Rothstein's first point — if we get tougher on schools that saddle students with unsustainable debts, that will mostly hurt for-profits. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 21, 2021 Hibernated