Timeline for In California, does it cost more to send someone to prison than to send them to Stanford?
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| May 28, 2017 at 15:03 | comment | added | Martin Schröder | @NickT: Prisons in the USA are an industry; they do not "reform". | |
| May 25, 2017 at 7:04 | comment | added | CptEric | @NickT 'probably has the point there, presumably what Sanders is saying is that the average american citizien is fine with prison burden be equal and shared, while it also accepts or agrees with the fact that education burden is on one's own, trying to depict the lack of coherence in those two incompatible reasonings. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 18:59 | comment | added | Nick T | Logical dead-ends I pose aside, I'm still not sure what the comparison is supposed to be. Prison is there to penalize and hopefully "reform" people (justly or unjustly), college is to train people. We spend a lot of money on both, is this surprising? I suppose from Sanders' point of view is that the government is spending the former on people, but individuals need to cover the latter. Would help the infographic if it alluded to that more strongly. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 12:58 | comment | added | dsollen | comparing 3/4 of a year to a full year seems a bit unfair. If nothing else a stanford student needs room and board covered during summer even if he isn't actively attending Stanford. I'd suggest at least finding a low estimate for room & board for the summer (I'd say at least 1000/month for stanford kids, they probably don't live as cheap as I did lol). Plus health insurance should be considered, if nothing else parents are paying more to cover their kids on their insurance then getting an insurance without their kids probably? | |
| May 23, 2017 at 6:44 | comment | added | mcottle | If the use of research funding is anything like it was when I was a postgraduate research associate, any research monies will be thoroughly ring fenced from the teaching budget. Nothing bought for research will be touched by an undergraduate until it's at least a decade old. Last time I checked, the research budget of the average penal institute was insignificant. Long story short, the Student income per student is a pretty fair way of estimating the cost of educating someone at Stanford. | |
| May 21, 2017 at 7:21 | comment | added | user11643 | Not to mention the cherry picking. Stanford is one of the expensive schools. Not representative of an average. But that serves the message's point, that schooling costs less than prison. | |
| May 21, 2017 at 6:28 | vote | accept | JonathanReez | ||
| May 21, 2017 at 2:58 | history | answered | Nick T | CC BY-SA 3.0 |