"Gainful Employment" Proposed Regulations Gone Awry

by Lanny Davis

Suppose that a conservative Republican Administration, in the middle of high unemployment and an economic slowdown, proposed new regulations that would most hurt lower income people and minority groups and the for-profit colleges and universities that serve them? Can you imagine the cries of outrage from liberal critics, condemning "hard-hearted" Republicans targeting the most vulnerable young people in our society?

Yet that is exactly what the Department of Education's proposed "gainful employment" regulations would likely do.

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