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Originally Posted by Ark2
I think this is a terrible idea. First, post secondary education is already subsidized, and in fact, it is because of subsidization and ease of obtaining student loans that the cost of tuition is so high. Second, blindly pushing post secondary education on everyone is not going to improve the job situation for young people. Mindlessly sinking 4 years and 5-6 figures into an education that has little value in the job market is a big part of the problem these days, and your idea would only make that worse.
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Absolutely. If you're going to suggest that more post-secondary would create "good jobs for young people", you need to support that, because it seems to me that that would simply produce more people with undergraduate degrees serving you coffee at Starbucks.
If you were to suggest transitioning subsidies from post-secondary to vocational training (i.e. making it cheaper and easier to become a plumber / electrician / etc) then we'd be talking.