Wow. My first two years were paid by NROTC at RPI in the late 70’s. THEN, yearly tuition was around 8K, and at the time that was considered HIGH. I think room and board for the year was between 1 and 2 thousand.
Tuition at Maryland was a surprise.
Student debt relief/forgiveness
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Wow. My first two years were paid by NROTC at RPI in the late 70’s. THEN, yearly tuition was around 8K, and at the time that was considered HIGH. I think room and board for the year was between 1 and 2 thousand.
Tuition at Maryland was a surprise.
Bare-ya-cuda
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In typical hypocrite fashion you probably didn’t pay a dime for your education.The "right way" would be to pay one's own way without government assistance -- pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.
WingsOfGold
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Who says he has one?
Bare-ya-cuda
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Good point
Clem72
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Same here, but many people still got loans. I put myself through school working nights at a gas station and picking grapes in the fall.
Delano, California?
Clem72
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Same state, but no. Usually in the Cloverdale/Healdsburg area along the Russian river.
HemiHauler
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That was probably the time when student loans were still dischargeable - and the smart among us declared bankruptcy before the cap hit the ground.
How wonderfully parasitic of you.
OMG what an a-hole. Have you gotten your free Obama stuff yet? How is the SNAP/EBT card working for you? What a leech.
black dog
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Talk to your local WalMart People Lead, thats what they call HR.
Its a benefit that few ft or pt associates use.
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I'm familiar with the area. I'm from the Bay.
black dog
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Hijinx
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Wen I got out of High School in 1960 $10,000 dollars would have put me through college, for 4 years but I didn't have $10,000 dollars and my parents didn't either. So i went to work. It hasn't been so bad. I may not be as rich as some, but what i have is paid for, and My wife and I have healthy kid and a couple of Grandkids, and we are happy. I was a Democrats but Bill and Hillary disgusted me so I left that party and went Republican.
Neither party is worth much, but compared to the Democrats, being a republican is only bad in spurts.
Neither party is worth much, but compared to the Democrats, being a republican is only bad in spurts.
22AcaciaAve
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So if Biden wants to do this, why can't he do it now? He has control of the congress. That is not going to last past November and the chance is very good that the house is going to be a rout against democrats. Even if he could possibly win another term, the best he probably is going to get over the next 6 years is a split congress, if he can get that. If he can't push this through with control of both houses of congress now, he won't be able to do it at all.
HemiHauler
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Well, it's not a given that he needs the assent of Congress. It's all funny-money. It costs taxpayers nothing to forgive it. He'll likely be sued if he forgives it to determine if he has the legal right, no extant case law.
I am not totally clear on what you're saying - does that mean WalMart will pay for courses, provided you pony up the equivalent of a dollar a day?
My agency has had a tuition reimbursement plan for years, but the two agonizing things about it, your courses are approved on a course for course arrangement, meaning if the school thinks you need technical writing for your computer degree but the agency DOESN'T, YOU pay out of pocket. Moreover, they didn't always approve on what school it was, and the reimbursement process was torture. It made advanced schooling exasperating, because essentially the ONLY degrees available were the very few that they approved.
I mean, I GET why they don't want to pay for a degree in French Literature or Psychology, but you'd think they'd be in favor of one in Statistics or Computer Science.
black dog
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My understanding is there is a list of pre approved colleges you can attend online for what degree and class you desire at the cost of a dollar a day. I overheard my bestie talk to others many times during the years she worked for Walmart.
If you are interested thats why I suggest you stop and speak to your local People Lead.