Maybe E, Sunshine and the other guy can have them stay with them...Do these folks know that the administration has proclaimed the border is closed?
Caravan of over 10,000 migrants leaving southern Mexico for U.S.
MEXICO CITY, June 6 (Xinhua) -- A new caravan with more than 10,000 migrants left southern Mexico on Monday with the aim of reaching the U.S. border, organizers and local media reported.
The largest contingent so far this year, made up of Central American, South American and Caribbean migrants, departed from the city of Tapachula in the Mexican state of Chiapas on the border with Guatemala.
Many of its members have been waiting for months to regularize their immigration status in Mexico and legally transit to the U.S. border.
The caravan coincides with the start of the ninth Summit of the Americas, where heads of state and government will meet in the U.S. city of Los Angeles on June 6-10 to address several issues such as the increase in irregular migratory flows.
Luis Garcia Villagran, an activist with the Center for Human Dignity who is coordinating the caravan, told local media that the aim of the action is to show continental leaders that "migrant women and children, and migrant families are not a bargaining chip for ideological and political interests," and that "the southern border is nobody's backyard."
Caravan of over 10,000 migrants leaving southern Mexico for U.S. | The Star
Instead of paying off student loans, how about schools with multi-billion dollar endowments start reducing tuition. One example is University of Michigan which will cost you $75k a year to attend if you're out of state. It's endowment, which is $17+ BILLION grew by 41% in 2021, yet tuition costs continue to increase. The 20 year return on its endowment investments have averaged 9.5% annually, yet their annual distribution rate rate is only 4.5%. Tuition has increased year over year.
Hey Daddy, when one resorts to correcting spelling and punctuation, one should probably just move along.
Oddly enough, you seem to be responding on a youth soccer forum about Joe Biden, whilst ignoring Joe's propensity for lies and plagiarism.
So they are making billions a year in tax free 'endowments' while helping predatory lenders lock students into unfair loans... and Biden, in his infinite wisdom, looks at this equation and has decided that throwing billions of federal money at it will somehow improve things. Good grief.
It's getting to the point where I have to wonder is he living on another planet or corrupt?
Particulary when our universities are being funded by us to the tune of $112 billion a year for tuition alone, not to mention grants, federal research funding etc. I'm picking on U of Michigan but they receive over $1 billion from the federal government annually.There is an endowment tax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_tax
I don't think these large endowments are super ubiquitous considering how many colleges/unis there are out there:
But I agree, those should be chipped away a bit -- an indirect way of taxing the 1% I suppose.
It's gross incompetence driven by strict adherence to a misguided narrative founded in emotion and not substance and an administration chosen based on identity and not qualifications. Harris, Buttigieg, Blinken, Mayorkas, Becerra, Granholm, Austin, Blinken. Really? The seven dwarfs could out perform this group. If you look at their responses to difficult problems their #1 response is to laugh, their #2 response is to say they are doing everything they can and have been working on it for months without saying what they are doing and their #3 response, when all else fails, they gaslight.It's getting to the point where I have to wonder is he living on another planet or corrupt?
When Trump took over the party, I left the party and registered Independent...In fairness... during the Trump years you did the same. Yea if pressed you might say I don't agree with him, but I can't remember a single lie you called him out on, or time you outspokenly broke with the party line.
Particulary when our universities are being funded by us to the tune of $112 billion a year for tuition alone, not to mention grants, federal research funding etc. I'm picking on U of Michigan but they receive over $1 billion from the federal government annually.
Fair, although there is some crazy research that has no practical relevance. My point is the universities should look to its own pot first before it dips into the public cookie jar.The research funding is worth it though. Universities do a lot of good work there. Research gets funded that otherwise wouldn't in our current economic model. What's that breakdown of federal funding for U of M?
Fair, although there is some crazy research that has no practical relevance. My point is the universities should look to its own pot first before it dips into the public cookie jar.
You also have to evaluate whether or not you think your child is getting their monies worth for their education at a research university vs a teaching university. There are pros and cons to both.
The research funding is worth it though. Universities do a lot of good work there. Research gets funded that otherwise wouldn't in our current economic model. What's that breakdown of federal funding for U of M?
@baldref I know you do a laughing emoticon on everything you disagree with, but this one is puzzling to me. You don't think Universities should do research? I'd love to understand your mindset here? Did you happen to get a bachelor's degree?
It the primary reason why we decided the UC's weren't a good option for my daughter. Other than Engineering there really aren't many practical and marketable majors at the UC's, primarily just liberal art's degrees. Probably fine if you going to pursue a masters degree, law degree or doctorate, but not super marketable for a job right out of college.Totally agree. I would have some very frank conversations with my kids if they picked degrees with bleak earning potential. I think those areas are valuable but we haven't figured out how to appropriately fund them as a society.
I laugh when I think something is funny. Agree or disagree.@baldref I know you do a laughing emoticon on everything you disagree with, but this one is puzzling to me. You don't think Universities should do research? I'd love to understand your mindset here? Did you happen to get a bachelor's degree?
I laugh when I think something is funny. Agree or disagree.
My excessive use of quote marks and parentheses is far worse.Do you laugh at watfly's apostrophes?
Crazy research today could turn into something normal tomorrow.
100%. We used to have "shop" classes in high school including auto shop. No more in most cases.On this we can agree. It would be nice if Technical Colleges we viewed more like traditional colleges by HS counselors.
It's like it's frowned upon.
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After decades of pushing bachelor’s degrees, U.S. needs more tradespeople
As California budgets millions to rebrand long-disparaged vocational education, there are an estimated 30 million jobs in the U.S. that pay at least $55,000 per year and don’t require a bachelor’s degree.www.pbs.org