[lbo-talk] US consumption (was barbaric?)

Andy F andy274 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 05:39:42 PST 2007


On 3/6/07, W. Kiernan <wkiernan at ij.net> wrote:


> > Andie says that his dad could afford to send
> > three children to college. I am glad to hear
> > that, but US college enrollments have been
> > climbing again, after a big dip in the mid 80s,
> > so that now they stand at 27.8 million as
> > opposed to 20 million in 1967.
>
> That's not even keeping up with population growth, see:
>
> http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/censr-4.pdf

And you might want to look at the debt that enrollment entails, and how that's changed.

-- Andy



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