Everest and others were shopped as part of the investigation of the for-profit education industry, and the findings included this statement: "Admissions or financial aid representatives at all 15 for-profit colleges provided our undercover applicants with deceptive or otherwise questionable statements. These deceptive and questionable statements included information about the college’s accreditation, graduation rates and its student’s prospective employment and salary qualifications, duration and cost of the program, or financial aid. Representatives at schools also employed hard-sell sales and marketing techniques to encourage students to enroll."
It's time for the people who caused the problem to stop blaming everyone else for the layoffs.