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At my wife's former job, her colleague didn't understand why she had law school loans. They both went to the same law school. He went in early 90s and she went in 2010. He paid his entire tuition while working as a grocery store clerk. Dude was a poo poo head Libertarian who never thought to look up how much tuition had changed and just thought everyone was lazy.
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my student loans accrue interest at about 30% of my gross yearly income lol
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lmao of course kubosh is doing that
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Apr 25, 2020 17:42
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What the hell is wrong with Fat Col. Sanders
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I will say that while the base tuition rate has gone up, so too have the financial aid packages gone up in most institutions. Although admittedly I think net tuition revenue is still up overall. Some of the reasoning behind the high sticker prices is to collect tuition dollars from students who don't qualify for need based aid, and use that money to subsidize the students who do with institutional aid. In the absence of the government doing the needed redistribution, it falls instead to universities, and, well, we get stuff like this. 
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Sardonik posted:I will say that while the base tuition rate has gone up, so too have the financial aid packages gone up in most institutions. Although admittedly I think net tuition revenue is still up overall. In addition to that, a high percentage of "aid" is loans, not scholarships or grants.
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Aren't those federal student loans and have nothing to do with the individual college?
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poemdexter posted:Aren't those federal student loans and have nothing to do with the individual college? Correct. Things like UT's free tuition for students with a household income under $65k a year have nothing to do with student loans. There is a lot of additional aid going out that isn't loan-based.
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 the right is loving pissed about Houston's mask thing, this is the new holocaust i guess
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Sir Tonk posted:
I live just north of Houston and when the mask order went out, you could just feel the contrarian energy in my area. Overnight it seemed like the percentage of people wearing masks in public went from like 50% to 20% It has been a very stark difference since then.
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Sir Tonk posted:
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Apr 27, 2020 18:31
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The latest results of the UT politics tracking poll make for some interesting reading.  
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They are so happy the mask thing goes them something tangible to be mad at. These guys live for outrage and they finally have something real they can direct it toward.
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Sir Tonk posted:
I live in way South Texas and to hear that the biggest cities in the state are only barely doing that is the biggest  to me. gently caress we can barely keep our own people here in the RGV from throwing BBQs and driveway parties. This poo poo is dire. Starr County just had it's first new case in 21 days while Hidalgo, and Cameron counties numbers keep climbing.
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Sardonik posted:I will say that while the base tuition rate has gone up, so too have the financial aid packages gone up in most institutions. Although admittedly I think net tuition revenue is still up overall. For starters, mastajake posted:In addition to that, a high percentage of "aid" is loans, not scholarships or grants. That aside, the extreme price discrimination that is made possible by establishing a high sticker price and then offsetting it with aid makes sense if your primary goal is to maximize tuition revenue from customers from every possible level of income, but it introduces a lot of problems because, in a just world, the primary goal of an institution of higher learning should not be maximizing tuition revenue from every possible level of income. Unless you clearly fall in a narrowly-defined low-income bucket (which is not always as clear as you would expect!) and qualify for free tuition, the process for determining what price you pay for a brand-name university is both arbitrary and opaque. A lot of kids who might succeed at a high-profile college don’t even bother trying to go because they have to navigate a byzantine system just to find out how much you might have to pay, and there’s no guarantees that your “aid” and the price will stay mostly the same for the four-ish years you’re there. To give an idea of the kind of impact this price ambiguity has just on kids’ potential to apply to colleges: the University of Michigan started a program a few years back (called the HAIL program, if you want to google it) where they proactively reached out to some low-income high school students before they ever applied to UM, and pledged that they would get four years free tuition if they applied were accepted. They found that the students were then more than twice as likely to apply, and more than twice as likely to actually enroll when accepted. I guess what I’m trying to say is, every time soaring tuition prices come up and I hear some higher-ed bureaucrat retort “but look how much financial aid we give away!”, my vision turns blood red and I start hearing that siren-like sound effect from Kill Bill.
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Abbott is live now. Here's a link: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/coronavirus/governor-abbott-to-address-reopening-of-texas-economy-monday/2358748/
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https://twitter.com/Forrest4Trees/status/1254859065164886017 Yes time to make money at my restaurant that I can't have more than a quarter of my capacity at, so great are my margins.  Starting phase 2 today. I have no idea if these numbers are sufficient or what best practices are for test and tracing, but it's the absolute minimum for reopening the economy before a vaccine, so at least there's a plan for it. zoux fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Apr 27, 2020 |
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Phase 1: May 1 - retail, malls, movies, restaurants open, limited to 25% capacity (50% in counties with 5 or less active cases) - supercedes all local orders - museums and libraries open, but "interactive, hands-on" exhibits remain closed - churches are allowed "expanding capacity" -golf courses and tennis courts reopened - groups of no more than 4 -all licensed medical practitioners and hospitals reopen -hospitals must retain and reserve 15% capacity for COVID-19 patients Phase 2 penciled in for May 18, that phase may include barbershops, nail salons, gyms, bars Summer camps may be allowed with increased precautions, guidance to come later
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saintonan posted:Summer camps may be allowed with increased precautions, guidance to come later I think it was funny Abbott spent like 2-3 minutes on this, talking about how vital summer camps are for kids and how they're so critical to their development because he's probably heard nothing but screaming voicemails from constituents saying how they can't handle another second at home with their lovely loving kids. 
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saintonan posted:Phase 1: May 1 God this is going to end very badly.
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In Q&A Abbott has specifically mentioned that no jurisdiction can penalize anyone for not wearing a mask (i.e. Harris County).
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Shifty Pony posted:God this is going to end very badly. Bars? So Dirty 6th then? Certainly no problems there.
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There isn't a restaurant in the history of time that can make money on 25% capacity, these aren't drug cartel profits. To me this seems a lot about getting out of the way, knowing that businesses won't open and customers won't go to businesses (which is what polling consistently shows), so he can say "Hey, it's not my fault if you don't open". Mr. BT posted:Bars? So Dirty 6th then? Certainly no problems there. No bars, gyms, hair or nail salons.
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Mr. BT posted:Bars? So Dirty 6th then? Certainly no problems there. What separates a bar from a restaurant was a question I had, though there may be different licensing for bars that serve food vs restaurants that serve alcohol. Bars will remain closed until at least phase 2, restaurants can open May 1.
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I want to know how retail businesses are going to regulate what 25% capacity is. Are they going to have a bouncer at the door with one of those clickers letting people have a 1-in-1-out policy? Because I think most angry boomers I've seen are just going to storm the doors and not give a gently caress if anyone tries to stop them. Same thing for churches. I'd bet practically anything that the pews are going to be full up this Sunday.
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My family business is restaurants so I called my mom to ask if she could make money at one of her stores (they're retired now so it's hypothetical) at 25 percent capacity and she said no way. She told me she wouldn't open one with any capacity restrictions, because of enforcement questions as well as safety concerns, plus the razor thin margins almost all restaurants operate at http://gov.texas.gov/opentexas This is the detailed plan that probably answers a lot of our questions but it's absolutely swamped right now. I was literally typing in the url as Abbott said it and it was hosed that quickly zoux fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Apr 27, 2020 |
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/Forrest4Trees/status/1254859065164886017 4000 contact tracers does not sound like enough for the entire loving state
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Badger of Basra posted:4000 contact tracers does not sound like enough for the entire loving state Well we're not doing (and dont plan to ever do) enough testing so it all balances out. https://twitter.com/texaslippy/status/1254862380942544896
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FBS posted:Well we're not doing (and dont plan to ever do) enough testing so it all balances out. Well he only gives a poo poo about the ~55% of the population that voted for him so that checks out.
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zoux posted:My family business is restaurants so I called my mom to ask if she could make money at one of her stores (they're retired now so it's hypothetical) at 25 percent capacity and she said no way. She told me she wouldn't open one with any capacity restrictions, because of enforcement questions as well as safety concerns, plus the razor thin margins almost all restaurants operate at I think it's just https://texas.gov/opentexas but you're right the whole site is unusable right now.
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saintonan posted:Phase 1: May 1 oh gently caress off
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I'm really looking forward to HEB continuing to require masks for entry and some chud having a complete meltdown over it.
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Xarthor posted:I want to know how retail businesses are going to regulate what 25% capacity is. Are they going to have a bouncer at the door with one of those clickers letting people have a 1-in-1-out policy? Because I think most angry boomers I've seen are just going to storm the doors and not give a gently caress if anyone tries to stop them. Same thing for churches. I'd bet practically anything that the pews are going to be full up this Sunday. That's what seems so clear when people want to compromise on it or leave it up to the discretion of businesses. If a waitstaff has to worry about tips again, can they take health and safety precautions without pissing off the kind of people who are insisting on going out right now? If the government is not going hard line or enforcing anything, how are businesses going to deal with irate people who demand their family get in right now? Even stores that want to require masks will get customers that go off on them, refuse, and leave negative reviews. I wish the governments would take responsibility and stop leaving the responsibility to people with little power in enforcing public health when the governor and president won't. Shifty Pony posted:I'm really looking forward to HEB continuing to require masks for entry and some chud having a complete meltdown over it. Yeah, this is what I was talking about. I could see them relenting because of conflict with customers.
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Shifty Pony posted:I'm really looking forward to HEB continuing to require masks for entry and some chud having a complete meltdown over it. It probably makes me a bad leftist, but if HEB took over the state government I'd be okay with it.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-texas-democrats-plan-to-pull-off-an-all-virtual-convention/quote:How Texas Democrats plan to pull off an all-virtual convention We'll see how this works!
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1stGear posted:It probably makes me a bad leftist, but if HEB took over the state government I'd be okay with it. HEB was more prepared than the people currently in charge of the federal government.
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