dmiblog.com — No wonder we’re all drowning in debt. Over the past 30 years, a college degree has become increasingly necessary for anyone who hopes to earn a middle-class standard of living. Yet over the same period of time, the cost of tuition and fees at public four-year universities has increased ten times faster than the median family income for families with children. That’s a crisis of stagnating wages as well as a problem of soaring college costs. Either way, something’s got to give.
cnn.com — Former House Speaker — and potential presidential candidate — Newt Grigrich's Twittering on the president's handing of the pirates of Somalia reveals a major problem for the GOP: If Republicans can't allow that the president did his job well in this unambiguous case, why should we believe their complaints about anything else? If they can't pat him on the back for this one, why should we even listen to their arguments about the budget, about health care, about energy?
tomdispatch.com — Talk to enough students and families on a college campus and you'll hear plenty of stories about families scraping by in increasingly tough times as tuition bills rise, of students working second and third jobs, of newly minted graduates staggering into an ever more jobless world under the weight of tens of thousands of dollars in student-loan debt. This crisis has been a long time coming, but bad times have brought it into clearer focus.
alternet.org — The era of hearing that government is evil, that a "hands-off" government gives us freedom is over. Now it's time to think about the public good.
nytimes.com — We were horrified to be reminded that the nation still has not plumbed the depths of the Bush administration’s abuses. At the same time, it was a relief to see President Obama beginning to make good on his promise of greater transparency.
truthdig.com — Sometimes systems are so flawed that they need to be scrapped and replaced rather than fiddled with or fixed. Not all — but many — American schools and systems fall into this category. They are not just damaged; they are truly broken.
tomdispatch.com — Now that we've decided to "green" the economy, why not green homeland security, too? Shouldn't we finally start rethinking the very notion of homeland security on a sinking planet?
washingtonindependent.com — Unlike education programs, which need ongoing funding, a two-year investment in school construction would produce thousands of school buildings that could be used for decades to come, with no need for continued federal funding. Investments in "greening" existing school facilities to reduce their energy consumption will produce substantial, ongoing savings that school districts can use to fund pre-k, increased teacher compensation, and other educational programs.
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