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Worker productivity (what you MAKE for others) has tripled. Wages have stayed the same. Yet some people - hopefully not you - keep pushing for low wages.
I have laid out many a time how I made the equiv. of $26 an hour in 1975 working in the low-wage area of rural TN as a site laborer. Today the same job pays 1/2 that much.
In California the blame goes to Ronald Raygun. And proposition 13. The cost of higher education was largely funded by the state but with tax cutting fervor that changed to make students shoulder more responsibility.
I think that students should not go into debt to get a college education, but I also think students who come from families with money should pay more tuition.
Hmm, the premise is bull****. I was one of those 1970s minimum wage workers going to a state school and I couldn't cover the cost working full time.
Minimum wage in 1973 was $1.60/hour, tuition and fees was $3700. Do the math.
Do you have some facts to back up your $3,700.00. I did a quick Google and in 1970 it was like $1,400.00 which included tuition, room and board, plus fees per year.
The real reason for the increase is inflated administration, land and buildings, tenure, professors that are on full pay but only teach part time, and over inflated sports programs. Not to say the stupid federal loan programs which encourage run away inflation on tuition and fees.
Hmm, the premise is bull****. I was one of those 1970s minimum wage workers going to a state school and I couldn't cover the cost working full time.
Minimum wage in 1973 was $1.60/hour, tuition and fees was $3700. Do the math.
I didn't go to college so can't comment on the costs...but I made $3.20 an hour at day labor (manpower) in TN in 1974 and $5 an hour as a beginning framer on a construction crew (I didn't have any skill other than carrying 2x4's and nailing a few together).
That's about $16 and $26 today.......making it fair to say that the wages for many younger people today are lower in relation.
Also, as mentioned, people like Reagan "reformed" the college system...in CA. it used to be free college for most all. No more.
"Shortly after being elected governor of California in 1966, Ronald Reagan proposed a tuition, a 10% cut from state funding and the firing of UC President Clark Kerr, who stood by students who were protesting rising costs"
Once he got to the White House he did even more....much more. Then his followers (trickle down) destroyed wages, outsourced jobs and made for-profit colleges into a big thing.
Do you have some facts to back up your $3,700.00. I did a quick Google and in 1970 it was like $1,400.00 which included tuition, room and board, plus fees per year.
The real reason for the increase is inflated administration, land and buildings, tenure, professors that are on full pay but only teach part time, and over inflated sports programs. Not to say the stupid federal loan programs which encourage run away inflation on tuition and fees.
Other than I know what I paid? No.
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