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September 11, 2018 - February 12, 2019
They said that the military and other public-sector employers were shedding jobs.
When systemic failures can be predicted and there exists a public response but political actors instead incentivize market solutions, a negative social insurance program results.
problems hiring and promoting women and ethnic and racial minorities.
other tech-related job skills are recruiting from highly educated, high-status groups.
Either way, millions of people went to college to get more, newer skills so that they could make more money.
By the second account, for-profit colleges designed and executed the biggest con (on a few million people) seen in quite some time.
three sociological concepts.
Those changes have created more inequality, especially for women, minorities, and minority women, but not just for women, minorities, and minority women.
Political, economic, and ideological forces, either affirmatively or by refusing to intervene, made credentials produced in the market and for the market the only feasible solution for millions o...
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Republican Party is especially bullish on for-profit colleges.
Republican Party platform specifies a focus on “new systems of learning to compete with traditional four-year schools: technical institutions, online universities, life-long learning, and work-based learning in the private sector.”
Lower Ed thus serves multiple...
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While those barriers may serve to protect the students earning traditional college credentials, they trap those with for-profit college credits or credentials in an educational ghetto.
better labor at little to no cost for employers. That is unsustainable.
Those social movements would also address, head-on, the racist and gendered histories of wealth inequalities in the United States and their impact on minorities in the new economy.
By any stretch of the imagination, credentialing in the new economy has to date taken from the have-nots to give to the haves.
inequalities resulting from intergenerational cumulative disadvantage doesn’t require intent.
