The One Kid Nobody Claps For

Why does college cost so much — and why are we guaranteed to forgive student loans again without fixing anything? Jeremy Boreing explains the college lie we applaud every spring in church, why the one kid who says he's "just going into the workforce" is the most likely to succeed, and how federal student loans are the engine driving tuition to absurd heights.

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In this episode: the high school senior parade and the future that doesn't exist; failure to launch vs. lying to kids about their careers; why highly educated, low-income voters are choosing socialist candidates in Democratic primaries; the grad school loan cap in the One Big Beautiful Bill and the universities that instantly lowered tuition to match it; a former Obama economist's finding that expanding grad loans didn't expand access at all — it was fully captured as university profit; Pell Grants vs. loans and the perverse incentive to raise prices; why Congress has become a vestigial organ and policy now ping-pongs with every administration; and why the great unfinished business of the Trump era is the cost of living, not the culture war.

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