Thank you for this fabulous post! I just wrote about the Heritage Foundation's report claiming that higher education is hurting the birth rate and actually have a post queued up for Thursday linking this to the tariff policy, so seeing your smart piece makes me feel like I'm on the right track in seeing these strands as connected. (Also, my mom went to Vassar in the '60s and used to joke about the MRS degree).
"Expensive and misguided government interventions in education are, whether intended or not, pushing young people away from getting married and starting families, to the long-term detriment of American society."
Get the poors out of college and get them back to cranking out future meat widgets (who can now get to work sooner than ever thanks to squashing those silly child labor laws).
Thank you for this fabulous post! I just wrote about the Heritage Foundation's report claiming that higher education is hurting the birth rate and actually have a post queued up for Thursday linking this to the tariff policy, so seeing your smart piece makes me feel like I'm on the right track in seeing these strands as connected. (Also, my mom went to Vassar in the '60s and used to joke about the MRS degree).
You must mean this beauty-- https://www.heritage.org/education/report/education-policy-reforms-are-key-strategies-increasing-the-married-birth-rate-- with its immortal lines like
"Expensive and misguided government interventions in education are, whether intended or not, pushing young people away from getting married and starting families, to the long-term detriment of American society."
Get the poors out of college and get them back to cranking out future meat widgets (who can now get to work sooner than ever thanks to squashing those silly child labor laws).