For less than 1/3rd of what California pays for its incarceration system, the @uofcalifornia system’s schools are the top in the country in terms of % of students from low-income households.https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/upshot/californias-university-system-an-upward-mobility-machine.html …
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If the American dream is upward socioeconomic mobility, public universities are a major part of that. When you defund public education, you’re saying kids like these don’t deserve opportunity.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/us/university-california-merced-latino-students.html …
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“you don’t care about poor people” is 1) not an argument, has 2) nothing to do with my central point, and is just 3) a kind of obnoxious thing to say to someone from a family of poor people
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