host: jonathan butcher, you mentioned purdue university. what other, in the private school -- that nonpublic universities and colleges are there some best practices, some examples of schools getting student lending right? guest: i think the income agreements of purdue is a good example, it allows students to receive funding for the education while in school and contribute a share of their income once they graduate and have a job after they finish. there are few schools that are starting with such with -- such unique ideas because the federal government holds upward of 90% of all student loans now. washington is applying appeared there is little incentive for schools to change what they are doing. remember, for every dollar of federal money, federal tax dollars, that goes to student loans, college tuition has gone up $.50. the bennett hypothesis has been proved over and over again. the additions washington has made a student loans has driven up the cost of tuition for all students around the country. host: let's hear from lee in seneca, sout

jonathan butcher if you would like to respond.st: that is a huge amount, a huge amount be paying and that would be -- behind all of this is an admission that college did not produce what we thought it would, right? this guarantee that if you want to college and took out a big long that you would be able to get a job and pay for it later is -- we have the chain the discussion about the what -- what the american dream looks like and how college fits in the equation for different people with different goals in their life. no one should have to carry that -- when you go to college, the expectation is that you will leave with a degree that lets you pay for it. if you don't, and you wind up with a burden of this debt which is huge, then having created for him that expectation of success that we thought it would -- i agree that there are more costs associated with going to school than just tuition and books. that is also a problem in how the system is set up for people to take on increasing loads of debt without being prepared -- without

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