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CrispyQ

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2. Making our young people start their adult lives with tens of thousands of dollars in student debt

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Wed Sep 28, 2022, 03:05 PM

Sep 2022

is one of the stupidest, meanest things I can think of.

My first year of college, back in the mid-70s, cost about $5500, for tuition, room & board. That's in today's dollars. It wasn't a thing for professors to make money off students by writing text books & requiring them for the course, & then the next year, adding a 10 page addendum so that next year's students have to buy a whole new book not a used one.

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