{"id":6913,"date":"2010-09-03T19:53:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T23:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6913"},"modified":"2010-09-03T19:53:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T23:53:18","slug":"higher-education-bubble-could-be-the-next-to-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6913\/higher-education-bubble-could-be-the-next-to-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Education Bubble Could be the Next to Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional wisdom says that when the job market dries up, it\u2019s time to head back to school for more education.\u00a0 With today\u2019s announcement that <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703946504575469331075476058.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories\" target=\"_blank\">unemployment is above 9% nationally<\/a> for the 16<sup>th<\/sup> month in a row, many out-of-work Americans will consider going back to school.<\/p>\n<p>In two to three years, those who pay for more certificates or degrees may find that their employment \u2013 and financial \u2013 situation hasn\u2019t improved.\u00a0 The reason is the rising cost of higher education coupled with the loss in value of college degrees.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2010\/05\/20\/whats-a-diploma-worth\" target=\"_blank\">Per <em>Reason Magazine<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Student borrowing has more than doubled since the end of the 20th century, according to the College Board, with $85 billion in loans in 2008, up from $41 billion in 1998. And as the rising rate of defaults indicates, borrowers in aggregate are not making the kind of money\u2014i.e. twice as much as a decade ago\u2014they would need to pay those loans back.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s response to this bubble has been to get itself more deeply involved in the inflation. The administration has kicked in various types of assistance, such as a $100 million college prep program. And in March, President Barack Obama signed a bill eliminating the 45-year-old Federal Family Education Loan Program (which guaranteed student loans made by private lenders) and replacing it with a system of direct Treasury Department loans to students. The first part of these efforts is a straightforward waste of money. The second has the potential to be a marginal improvement on a system that shouldn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p>So we have too much money going into an asset, not enough value coming out, a massive increase in leverage, and a large taxpayer liability for the difference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Get ready for another bailout\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional wisdom says that when the job market dries up, it\u2019s time to head back to school for more education.\u00a0 With today\u2019s announcement that unemployment is above 9% nationally for the 16th month in a row, many out-of-work Americans will consider going back to school. In two to three years, those who pay for more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1132,143,1795,661,225],"class_list":["post-6913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bailout","tag-barack-obama","tag-bubble","tag-higher-education","tag-reason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6914,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions\/6914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}