December 18, 2004

Free college won't pay dividends for Michigan

In an op-ed piece, Thomas Bray contends that the suggestion by Gov. Granholm's Cherry Commission that college be free "sounds nice, but a few questions intrude." He wonders where the state will get the money to fund such a plan, short of a tax increase. He also questions whether universal access to college would do much to pull the state toward full employment. He contends that high-tech jobs of the future will pay well, "which means that workers will have plenty of incentives to get all the education they need - without hornswoggling taxpayers into bailing out the not-very-overworked folks in higher education."

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