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What Do For-Profits Colleges and The World’s Worst Dictators Have in Common? � The Quick and the Ed

What Do For-Profits Colleges and The World’s Worst Dictators Have in Common? � The Quick and the Ed

What Do For-Profit Colleges and The World’s Worst Dictators Have in Common?



Former Clinton aide and current for-profit higher education lobbyist Lanny Davis–whose other clientsinclude Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, a man who Foreign Policyranked as the 14th-worst dictator in the world after he “amassed a fortune exceeding $600 million while the masses are left in desperate poverty”–has dutifully published an anti-”gainful employment regulation” article on behalf of his paymasters that doesn’t even try to be truthful or make sense. For example:

Liberals supporting these proposed regulations rightly complain about marketing and other abuses