One of the more annoying tropes of the left is that while it may be all right for profit-oriented businesses to function in many markets – I have yet to hear anyone demand that dry cleaning, for example, be done by non-profit entities – they shouldn’t be in “helping” fields like health care and education. […]
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Originally run as a Manhattan Institute Policy Brief. The growth of student-loan debt has raised a vexing question: Is a college degree still a good investment? No segment of American higher education has faced greater scrutiny than for-profit colleges and universities. For-profits differ from traditional institutions in important respects. They are accountable chiefly to […]
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Gone are the days when the liberal press covered the Federalist Society as if it were a mysterious and sinister cult. Now (April 17) the Chronicle of Higher Education features a largely favorable feature article hailing the Federalist Society’s history as “a story of how disaffection, bold ideas, commitment to principle, and enlightened institution-building have […]
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Another day, and another awful consequence of our student debt problem has come to light. The New York Fed just released data showing that growing levels of student debt have impacted homeownership and car purchasing patterns. In the past, 30-year-olds who at some point owed student debt were more likely than those who didn’t to […]
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