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Four years of college shouldn’t be the only gateway to the middle class

Thinking about education reform in the Trump era

Robert Reich
May 27, 2025
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Friends,

Trump’s latest idiotic idea of redistributing $3 billion in grant money from Harvard to trade schools, which he posted yesterday, masks a larger and more serious issue.

It’s absurd that a four-year college degree has become the only gateway into the American middle class.

Many high school seniors feel compelled to go to college because they’ve b…

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