"The problem is that getting students to enroll is neither hard nor important. The important task is to help students graduate. Community college drop out rates now hover somewhere between 66 percent and 80 percent.
Spending $60 billion over 10 years to make community college free will do little to reduce that."
So, is the creation of educational opportunities a "good thing," even in the face of evidentiary failure? Maybe.
Will the community college program expand employment opportunities for professors, guidance counselors, college administrators, etc.? Absolutely.
Might the program reduce America's workforce if it results in the full-time enrollment of students, thereby bringing unemployment down by a small notch? Perhaps.
Can the United States, whose national debt now exceeds $18 trillion, afford this program? I suppose if you're going bankrupt anyway, it doesn't make a difference.
