This Woman Knows How Bad For-Profit Colleges Are. She Used To Sell Them. | Mother Jones

"Workers are increasingly responsible for navigating all the risks of the economy. Instead of saying "Hey, we realized workers are going to have to change jobs over their lives," they are going to have to retrain. Instead of the public sector providing support for you to do that, we're going to keep telling you to go back to college. The problem with that is if everybody doesn't have the equal access to prepare for college. We know the dismal inequalities that exist in K-12 by race, class, and gender. Not everybody is equally prepared to go to college, but now everybody is encouraged to do so just so they can work. That might be kind of okay if for-profit colleges totally transformed people's earning potential. The data are pretty clear: for-profit colleges don't do that. These colleges can't transform people's chances in life. So the people who are already in for-profits because of inequality spend a lot of money to try to fix their situation and in doing so, only make their inequality worse."