Comment by Smorvana on 01/05/2023 at 21:22 UTC

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It's a hand out for those with higher earning potential.

Don't see how over funding the irs and going after venmo transactions is going after the rich

Uhhh you do realize Universities are incredibly rich and lobby the Dems to keep that gravy train coming.

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Comment by Please_do_not_DM_me at 01/05/2023 at 23:10 UTC

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Most of the students in my cohort didn't graduate but still took on debt. There was something like 30 of us and around 5 graduated on time. Less than 5 of us graduated in our original majors. A few more may have graduated afterwards but I did not continue to have contact with them. This was at a tier 3 research university in the Midwest.

The worse case I saw was a woman in her 30s who had to work instead of come to class for two weeks. After she came back she was completely lost and dropped.

The major I had, Mathematics, is the hardest statistically so we had a higher failure rate than others but still though a 16% pass rate is pretty bad. The university as a whole only had something like 36% of it's students graduate on time.