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College: Too Costly, Too Little Learning, Too Much Underemployment

Nov 25, 201652 min
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Episode description

Richard Vedder joins us this week to discuss what he’s identified as three major problems with the way today’s American higher education system works.

Why is higher education so expensive, and how did it become so expensive so quickly? If student aid and loans only aggravate the problem, can anything be done to remedy this? Is going to college more of a status symbol than a necessity these days?

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