Reply #50: we have a young woman staying with us who earned her biology degree...

[mike_c]

...from a private college in NYC-- I don't recall which, off hand, maybe Columbia?-- but her debt is just a bit more than $100K, for a four year degree that is essentially useless to her because good jobs in science don't go to people with undergrad degrees, generally. This whole system has become an utter travesty. When 23 year old women enter the job market-- looking for their first employment EVER-- already six figures in debt they are little more than wage slaves indentured for life. We've managed to take one of the greatest and most empowering blessings imaginable-- higher education and intellectual development-- and destroyed it in the name of corporate greed. Just like the Gulf of Mexico.