Political donations from educational unions representing Kindergarten teachers through the American Association of University Professors have gone by almost 100% to Obama’s Democrat Party. Donations come from dues and wield enormous power. For-profit colleges hire instructors often also still working in their fields and thoroughly uninterested in joining unions.
For a politician stuck on “fairness,” Mr. Obama hasn’t written any into his punitive rules for career college graduates. Demanding immediate employment in a weak economy created by his own bad economic policies and only for a targeted cohort of students is … well … disgraceful. And painfully ironic.
Public and private colleges rely heavily on taxpayer subsidies to keep the doors open; for-profit schools do not receive state or federal subsidies and depend on tuition, direct or through aid. When Obama slipped the federal takeover of student loans into Obamacare, he set the wheels in motion for his ability to control access to student loan funding.
Now we know why. And it must be stopped.
Kerri Toloczko is a senior fellow at Frontiers of Freedom, a public policy institute dedicated to promoting individual freedom, limited government and free enterprise.