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Peter Riley

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Student Loans Debt
https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/

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Later in 1970, Roger Freeman —a key educational adviser to Nixon then working for the reelection of California governor Ronald Rea- gan —spelled out quite precisely what the conservative counterattack was aimed at preventing: “We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education. If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people.”
The two most menacing institutional sources of the danger described by Freeman were obvi- ously those two great public university systems charging no tuition: the University of California and the City University of New York. Governor Reagan was able to wipe out free tuition at the University of California

The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous “Educated Proletariat”

In 1970, Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education.

^{Jon Schwarz (The Intercept)}

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