Now that I'm a parent, I'm suddenly realizing what huge feminist issue student loans are.
My loans are around 130k, which means I'm HEAVILY incentivized to stay out of the workforce to keep them in deferment. I don't even know that I'd bring home an income working, between childcare costs and loan payments.
In principle this should be a both-genders problem, but of course it ends up amplifying the pressure on women to stay home.
@gwensnyder You’ve got huge loans because of Capitalists who put profits above society and we collectively have allowed that. 😐
@CivilityFan @Huntn00 @gwensnyder Interesting spin on the reasons for cutting appropriations and increasing tuition. I don’t disagree. I went to Utah St. Univ from 1969-72, then graduated in 1975. Then worked on MA at BYU 1976-78, and PhD at UoAz 1978-82. Didn’t finish either grad degree. Later went back to USU for MEd degree (2006). I’ve taken out no loans, but that would be impossible today. My kids made it thru on scholarships, so no loans.
@CivilityFan @gwensnyder I grew up Middle Class, I had a 4 year USAF ROTC scholarship and my parents could easily afford room and board at Syracuse University. I want to say that tuition if I had to have paid it was about $1500 a semester. I had no college loans to pay. I graduated in 1975. Now think about college tuition today. How higher educational has changed. 🤔
@Huntn00 @gwensnyder I attended SF State from 1969 to 1971 while Reagan with CA governor. My student loan was for $1500 and besides my college expenses, I also used it to buy a stereo (a record player with an amplifier and AM/FM radio), and covered my rent and food. The students then were demonstrating against the Viet Nam war and for civil rights, which conservatives found appalling. In the years following, they pursued the policies to raise tuition and cut public spending on higher education to cause financial pain to anyone seeking an education because those are the folks whom they know are their enemy.