Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Equality of Opportunity

Awesome graph in this post by Krugman.  I'm curious, though, how much of the difference in completion outcomes is related to income.

Romney is awfully cynical - "don't expect the government to forgive the debt you take on".  If this is the mentality, we wouldn't have very many doctors or lawyers; med or law school without loans, yeah right.  I think I'm convincing myself a little bit to agree with Romney... less lawyers... yum.

Also, if you don't go to the university with the highest price, you're not really getting equal opportunity.  Harvard is a whole lot more helpful in changing your socioeconomic status than a small div III college close to home.

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