Schools Matter: The College Caste System: Feeding the Corporate Welfare Colleges to Miseducate the Poor and the Homeless

Schools Matter: The College Caste System: Feeding the Corporate Welfare Colleges to Miseducate the Poor and the Homeless

The College Caste System: Feeding the Corporate Welfare Colleges to Miseducate the Poor and the Homeless

by Jim Horn

Yielding to pressure from the for-profit corporate college lobbyists, earlier this year the Congress cut funding for the expansion of community colleges from $12 billion to $2 billion. Meanwhile, the President reads the script handed him by the Chamber of Commerce to guarantee that college for the lower caste is turned over to corporate exploitation:

Every American will need to get more than a high school diploma, and by 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.

So with money choked off from the community college expansion and with broke states starving out the public colleges and universities, where to turn to make the President's pledge come true?


That's right, the poor can turn to the schemers and scammers of the for-profit online diploma mills like Phoenix, Kaplan, Capella, Grand Canyon U., and Drake, any of which may be found on any given day down at the homeless shelters and soup kitchens recruiting new students. For if