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No more trash degrees.<\/p>\n

That’s what President Trump is getting rid of. And it can’t come soon enough.<\/p>\n

According to New York Post columnist Rikki Schlott:<\/p>\n

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Students will no longer be able to take out federal loans to pay for degree programs that fail to provide them a return on investment, thanks to a new federal policy that went into effect on July 1.<\/p>\n

Read more America 250: Our Great Challenge<\/a><\/p>\n

And it\u2019s about time.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a response to a shocking fact: Graduates of more than 800 college programs across the country \u2014 including at institutions like the University of Southern California and New York City\u2019s New School \u2014 make less than the average high-school grad four years after getting a degree, despite all that time, effort and tuition money.<\/p>\n

Now the American government will have no part in propping up degree programs that may not even lead to a livable wage. A provision of the Big Beautiful Bill cuts them off from federal aid access if they can\u2019t break the non-grad salary baseline.<\/p>\n

Programs that fail the test for two out of three consecutive years will no longer be able to bury kids in debt \u2014 at least not on the taxpayer\u2019s dime.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The colleges will either have to cut their prices to a level where federal student loans are not needed, or else scrap these worthless programs, Uncle Sam is not going to be there to pay it for them, let alone provide student loan ‘forgiveness’ that the taxpayers have to pay for.<\/p>\n

Which is a valuable thing.<\/p>\n

Too many trash degrees out there, with underpaid degree-holders, is fueling some bad dynamics in society.<\/p>\n

Fortune magazine describes how bad the picture\u00a0has been since about 2005:<\/p>\n

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The data point that Scheiber returns to most is striking: The New York Federal Reserve has tracked the unemployment rate for recent college graduates since the late 1980s. For roughly three decades, it almost never exceeded the overall unemployment rate. Since 2022, it has stayed stubbornly above it.<\/div>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s just not something that we saw for 30 years before that,\u201d [author Noam] Scheiber says. \u201cIt\u2019s a pretty remarkable shift.\u201d<\/div>\n
As many students took out loans to pay for the soaring cost of tuition, they found themselves unable to get the high-paying jobs they needed to see a return on investment. Instead, they found themselves further in debt, living with their parents, and delaying milestones such as getting married or buying a house.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s created an actual class known as ‘downwardly mobile college graduates.’ who are a core constituency — and a growing one — in the Mamdani Marxist movement.<\/p>\n

As the author said: “Downward mobility is incredibly radicalizing.”<\/p>\n

Eric Hoffer wrote about this phenomenon in his 1951 bestseller, The True Believer, in the chapter titled ‘The New Poor.’<\/p>\n

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This passage on\u00a0downwardly mobile college graduates forming unions across many professions, from Fortune magazine, is telling:<\/p>\n

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That sense of shared precarity, [author Noam] Scheiber argues, is reshaping identity in ways that will define American politics for years. A plurality of the early Starbucks organizers he spoke to had volunteered for Bernie Sanders. The support for socialism among college graduates under 35 is, in his telling, not a fringe phenomenon but a mainstream one. He points to figures like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2014a Boston University graduate who worked in restaurants and as a bartender before her political career\u2014as both exceptional and emblematic.<\/div>\n
\u201cDownward mobility is incredibly radicalizing,\u201d he says. \u201cIf you either grew up upper middle class and that\u2019s no longer available to you, or you grew up with the promise of joining the upper middle class because you went to college like you were told to, and took out your loans. And now there\u2019s no job that is available that enables you to come to the middle class. There are probably some more radicalizing forces in history, but not that many.\u201d<\/div>\n
He draws a line from the current moment to a broader historical pattern explored by the political scientist Peter Turchin, whose work on the \u201coverproduction of elites\u201d has gained a wide audience. The theory: when societies produce too many highly educated people competing for too few positions of status and prosperity, the result is political instability.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That smells like Mamdani in spades, the phenomenon of the underpaid college graduate, saddled with mountains of student loan debt they\u00a0will never be able to repay, demonized by the woke, affirmative-actioned out of any jobs even against illegals, and no prospects for anything better, is what’s fueling the Mamdani phenomenon.<\/p>\n

A huge percent of Mamdani’s base in New York City’s mayoral election was from this base of\u00a0young people.<\/p>\n

“Mamdani’s youth support\u00a0goes beyond New York,” NPR crowed.<\/p>\n

A couple days ago, Evan Barker, a former Democrat operative appalled a the takeover of his party by DSA radical leftists wrote in the Free Press that the problem was just beginning:<\/p>\n

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As a former Democratic operative, I worked with many of today\u2019s rising far-left candidates. What you\u2019re seeing now is only the beginning.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Shutting down the radicalizing pipeline which goes through the colleges, not just from wokester instruction, but from the money structure itself that bankrolls worthless degrees and angry leftists is a critical step towards stopping this terrible dynamic. We all know that young people view socialism favorably, unlike past generations and gladly vote for these maniacs against all common sense. Had these people gotten decent degrees instead, with known usefulness as stepping stones towards well-paid jobs, this radicalism phenomenon might never have happened\/<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has seen it, and moved to shut it all down. This may be one of\u00a0 the most valuable achievements in a long line of achievements. Getting rid of the worthless degrees and all that follows from it is one critial way socialism will be defeated. America owes President Trump a debt of gratitude for this valuable service.<\/p>\n

Read more What equality and democracy don\u2019t share<\/a><\/p>\n

Image: Student loan by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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