In a global economy that demands at least some post-secondary education for all its workers, the same economy may be pricing these workers out of a chance for an education.
This is not exactly news, especially to parents and students who have seen the yearly increases in tuition and other costs gallop ahead of the inflation rate for many years. But a combination of factors -- continuing rising costs, unsustainable student debt, and a terrible job market -- may be pushing this problem to the crisis point. It's a national situation, of course, but of particular concern to the Midwest, which desperately needs to educate its workers for the global knowledge economy.