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pillbinge t1_j3y8l5g wrote

Reply to Mass. leaders are eyeing free community college — at least for some residents by SAT0725

>Healey says this would help train older adults in critical emerging industries like clean energy and advanced manufacturing.

This is a major problem, though - we aren't relying on those industries to train people reliably and sustainably. The emphasis on a college education means people are still focusing on one path, but they're doing it while not employed in that industry. You have to continually come prepared with an education - that may not even have caught up to real practices - instead of relying on a way to just give adults jobs. So just give adults jobs.

You can see these problems manifest in some fields where you need a degree to get in, but may not stay (e.g. teaching), or where you have people getting degrees in things that don't matter anyway, because the field didn't really need it and they switched a few years later regardless.

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marmosetohmarmoset t1_j3y58r8 wrote

Reply to comment by warlocc_ in Mass. leaders are eyeing free community college — at least for some residents by SAT0725

Do you already have a college degree and a decent job? Did you have kids or other expensive responsibilities when you were 32?

It sounds like this program is specifically targeting adults who don’t have existing training that would get them well-paying jobs. Or who might currently be in a dying industry and want to transition to a new line of work that the state is in need of workers for.

There are plenty of 30 year olds out there still working low-paying service jobs. But at 30 they’re more likely to also have significant expenses like children that a younger person would be less likely to have.

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Capital_Ad7979 t1_j3y0s98 wrote

Reply to I never got that tax refund that people were getting in November/December. I think it may have gone to a previous address by WAxlRoseX

This happened to me when I moved to a different state in the fall. If you have a mass tax connect account you can see if they ever tried to send it and if it was returned. I called and they cut me a new check but it was not easy getting a real person on the line, but once I did it was fixed in less than a minute

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throwsplasticattrees t1_j3xyjs6 wrote

Reply to comment by kennetcook in Mass. leaders are eyeing free community college — at least for some residents by SAT0725

I don't have children and yet a fair amount of my property tax and state income tax goes to support the public school system. Doesn't seem fair, now does it?

Its just me and the wife, but I have to purchase a family health insurance policy that is more than double the cost of a single plan. Doesn't seem fair, now does it?

We live in a society where we all contribute at different levels and receive benefits in different amounts. Just because you don't get a direct benefit doesn't mean you don't benefit. It's how it works.

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