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I'd be a huge supporter of starting something like the Civilian Conservation Corps today. Two years of honorable service (with room and board provided, plus a little stipend sent home) in return for free 2-years of technical training, free vocational school, or two years of free college tuition (maybe with room and board included, not sure). If you have run a successful business that employs 3 full-time employees within 7 years of completing your CCC service, I'd also support a free business grant to expand and grow your business, with a few strings attached. The same should be for military service.
I'd want the vocational training to really step it up and be worth the 2 years of service, including basic business courses (how to run a business, marketing, how to hire people, how to know your account is doing a good job, etc.) We want successful tradespeople who can hire others.
I'd also want to see for-profit "educational" institutions gutted.
There's certainly enough work in our parks to warrant this, and if they run out, well, we've got a lot of bridges that need repair, streets that need potholes filled, and low income housing to be built and/or renovated.
I admit that I like the idea of such a program because it would significantly level the playing field for those students who no matter how bright or gifted they are, have such heavy obligations at home that they cannot attend a college. The type of students that must work to support their parents or siblings, or who constantly have to financially bail them out.
There's a lot of evidence that one of the reasons why young people in the working class cannot get ahead is that money flows backwards or up in these generations. In other words, when someone older dies or gets sick, instead of weath and goods being passed to younger generations (as happens in the upper middle class) instead debt and costs are passed. Someone must pay for the funeral and the hospital bills, so the young "successful" person does it- at the cost of getting ahead themselves- continuing college, saving for a downpayment, paying off their own debt, etc.
It's gotten to the point that I've seen a redefining of class based upon what would happen if a parent died in regards to money transfer- is money passed down to younger individuals, there is no net loss or gain, or is debt passed down to younger individuals?
I'd want the vocational training to really step it up and be worth the 2 years of service, including basic business courses (how to run a business, marketing, how to hire people, how to know your account is doing a good job, etc.) We want successful tradespeople who can hire others.
I'd also want to see for-profit "educational" institutions gutted.
There's certainly enough work in our parks to warrant this, and if they run out, well, we've got a lot of bridges that need repair, streets that need potholes filled, and low income housing to be built and/or renovated.
I admit that I like the idea of such a program because it would significantly level the playing field for those students who no matter how bright or gifted they are, have such heavy obligations at home that they cannot attend a college. The type of students that must work to support their parents or siblings, or who constantly have to financially bail them out.
There's a lot of evidence that one of the reasons why young people in the working class cannot get ahead is that money flows backwards or up in these generations. In other words, when someone older dies or gets sick, instead of weath and goods being passed to younger generations (as happens in the upper middle class) instead debt and costs are passed. Someone must pay for the funeral and the hospital bills, so the young "successful" person does it- at the cost of getting ahead themselves- continuing college, saving for a downpayment, paying off their own debt, etc.
It's gotten to the point that I've seen a redefining of class based upon what would happen if a parent died in regards to money transfer- is money passed down to younger individuals, there is no net loss or gain, or is debt passed down to younger individuals?
You sound like a grad student. I went to school so long I could smell the pizza a floor away when it came in to an "event."I was told there'd be pizza.