inequality shows how they have established a party pathway. admitting more and more rich out of state kids who can afford hefty tuition bills. these cash cows are given special attention through easy majors, lax grading, social securities and luxurious dorms and facilities. now, that is bad for the bright, low-income students who what the book s authors call the mobility pathway. they are neglected, burdened by college debt and they fail in significant numbers. the country s best colleges and universities do admit lower income students, but the competition so intense and the percent admitted so small that the whole process seems somewhat arbitrary. when you throw in special preferences for various categories, legacies, underrepresented minorities and athletes, it also looks less merit based than it pretends to be. in an essay a in the american
transformed in recent decades under the pressure of rising costs and falling government support. a new book paying for the party how college maintains inequality shows how they have established a party pathway. admitting more and more rich out of state kids who can afford hefty tuition bills. these cash cows are given special attention through easy majors, lax grading, social securities and luxurious dorms and facilities. now, that is bad for the bright, low-income students who what the book s authors call the mobility pathway. they are neglected, burdened by college debt and they fail in significant numbers. the country s best colleges and universities do admit lower income students, but the competition so intense and the percent admitted so small that the whole process seems somewhat arbitrary. when you throw in special preferences for various
makers and the takers. we do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky. or happiness for the few. we recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us, at any time, may face a job loss or a sudden illness or a home swept away in a terrible storm. the commitments we make to each other through medicare and medicaid and social security, these things do not sap our initiative, they strengthen us. they do not make us a nation of takers, they free us to take the risks that make this country great. rick, that was the first time i ve ever heard anybody make that fascinating defense of these safety net programs. wherein parents will risk anything. they ll spend all of their money as they make it on tuition bills
illness or a home swept away in a terrible storm. the commitments we make to each other through medicare and medicaid and social security, these things do not sap our initiative, they strengthen us. they do not make us a nation of takers, they free us to take the risks that make this country great. rick, that was the first time i ve ever heard anybody make that fasz nating defense of these safety net programs. wherein parents will risk anything. they ll spend all of their money as they make it on tuition bills for their kids, with the assumption of if worse comes to worse, i can make it on social security. yeah, that s right. and this was a you might say that this was an ideological speech in the best sense of that word. and the battle of ideas and of visions is one that liberals,
aspirational, not specifically in the works. as for the home grown extremists, those already right here in the united states, the intelligence estimates say this date, this anniversary so to speak may hold some value to them, but they don t think it is enough to make them accelerate their plots. in other words, if they got some plat and they re on a timetable, they re not going to scrap their timetable just to make this deadline. okay. chris lawrence in the piers morgan. appreciate it. . once it has absolutely nothing to do with abortion, birth control or gay marriage. this is about the budget, specifically the one created by republican congressman paul ryan that passed the house. today ryan who is catholic spoke at the georgetown university. the reception he received was a bit chilly. ryan claims his faith guided his budget cuts, but nearly 90 of the school s faculty members and priests sent him a letter ahead of the appearance telling ryan he better go back and read his