Yesterday, I wrote about the growing gap between median rent and median income in our area. The vast difference has an impact on people who…
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For those who still haven’t figured out why community college enrollment is dropping, one only needs to look at the challenges that young adults currently…
If you follow higher education news, you know that colleges and universities all over the United States are closing or warning of impending closures. This…
The US Senate is considering increasing the Department of Education appropriation to increase the maximum Pell Grant by $250. On the surface, $250 doesn’t sound…
Forbes ran an opinion piece earlier this week that positively gushed about the value of community colleges. It riffed on the recently released America’s Hidden…
Bridge Michigan ran the Michigan Community College Association’s “rebuttal” of sorts to the Business Leaders for Michigan report, which the group released last week. I’m…
I’m still thinking about the Business Leaders for Michigan report released last week that analyzes what “we” can do to assist Michigan community colleges. The…
As the Business Leaders for Michigan report, released earlier this week, gains exposure, the media have latched onto certain narrow elements of it, such as…
Earlier this year, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis updated an annual study called The State of US Wealth Inequality. (Initially, the St. Louis…
One of the primary drivers of President Biden’s currently derailed student loan forgiveness plan is the size of student loan debt. Right now, 43 million…