{"id":784586,"date":"2022-09-01T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=253738"},"modified":"2022-09-01T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T06:00:24","slug":"bailing-out-corporate-higher-education-what-is-really-wrong-with-the-biden-student-debt-relief-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/01\/bailing-out-corporate-higher-education-what-is-really-wrong-with-the-biden-student-debt-relief-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Bailing Out Corporate Higher Education: What is Really Wrong with the Biden Student  Debt Relief Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Higher education is back to where it was before WW II\u2014a place for the affluent, white, and elite.\u00a0 Enrollment in higher education has largely stagnated in America, with those from lower income households and persons of color less likely to attend or complete college.\u00a0 Moreover, since 2008 birthrates and college attendance has dropped, forcing colleges to compete for a declining pool of applicants. Since then the pandemic enrollments have continued to slide. Higher education is now stratified\u00a0 from top down, with the elite Ivy Leagues at the top in terms of money and resources.\u00a0 For the rest of the schools, they were less sustainable and the Covid pandemic only hastened their problems.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/01\/bailing-out-corporate-higher-education-what-is-really-wrong-with-the-biden-student-debt-relief-plan\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/01\/bailing-out-corporate-higher-education-what-is-really-wrong-with-the-biden-student-debt-relief-plan\/\">Bailing Out Corporate Higher Education: What is Really Wrong with the Biden Student  Debt Relief Plan<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Higher education is back to where it was before WW II\u2014a place for the affluent, white, and elite.\u00a0 Enrollment in higher education has largely stagnated in America, with those from lower income households and persons of color less likely to attend or co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784609,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784586\/revisions\/784609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}