My letter to the world, that never wrote to me.

pantslessprogressive:

“Of course, it’s not enough for us to increase student aid.  We can’t just keep subsidizing skyrocketing tuition; we’ll run out of money.  States also need to do their part, by making higher education a higher priority in their budgets.  And colleges and universities have to do their part by working to keep costs down.  Recently, I spoke with a group of college presidents who’ve done just that.  Some schools re-design courses to help students finish more quickly.  Some use better technology.  The point is, it’s possible.  So let me put colleges and universities on notice:  If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down. 

Higher education can’t be a luxury – it’s an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.” - President Obama

(via fuckyeahmath)

nolanslifeisaverage:

barackobama:

Mitt Romney claimed this morning that he created “more jobs in Massachusetts than this president’s created in the entire country.” We’ll just leave this reality-depicting chart here and let you draw your own conclusions.

I would like to add clarify some citations to this.

Click here for a nice article articulating Romney’s faulty logic.

Click here for the source of the graph.

I would like to voice my own annoyance at people who persist in bitching about Obama’s lack of general success. Idk - considering he had to grab the bull by the horns AFTER the bull was already charging downhill…. I think he’s done a decent job.

But what do I know, I’m just a mis-informed, bleeding-heart liberal… right?

(via morbles)