Mitt Romney with Pa at his prep-school graduation. Courtesy of Cranbrook School
On education, April 27:
Get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents…
On education, July 02:
I want to make sure that we keep America a place of opportunity, where everyone has a fair shot. They get as much education as they can afford…
I don’t know how he reconciles the two sentences in the latter quote.
Anyways…
Tepid consensus is that he really truly honestly doesn’t know that a college education is now a gigantic investment for families. It puts great stress on household finances and is, writ large, very damaging to national competitiveness (and, thus, employment). Maybe he’ll have something more coherent to say by debate time, because we need to bat around some specific proposals.
Speaking of specifics, this was a great Fresh Air interview with Kevin Carey, the director of the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation.
College Tuition Inflation. Source: Here
Student Debt Overtakes Credit Card Debt. Source: Here
And the kicker–couple serious cost-of-living increases with this:
Hourly Wage By Educational Attainment. Source: Here
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