“We think the government should be providing more carrots and encouraging kids not to use drugs. Keeping someone in school is probably the best way to keep kids off drugs,” Mulligan says. “The ironic thing that will happen now is that the former trafficker convicted of trafficking hundreds of pounds across state lines decades ago will be helped, but the traditional college students won’t be.”
Last April, in preparation for the mark-up, the House committee took testimony from two economics professors presenting opposing views at a hearing entitled “College Access: Is Government Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?” One of the professors, Dr. Donald E. Heller of Pennsylvania State University, testified in favor of government programs to help low-income students with educational costs. The other, Dr. Richard Vedder of Ohio University, suggested that the federal spending on education was backfiring and driving up costs.
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