Why taxpayers should support university educations

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Not all public colleges need to be liberal arts, some should be vocational. People who lose jobs to obsolete industries should be able to go back to publicly funded colleges for retraining at little personal expense (they don’t have jobs after all).

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<p>This sounds like the community college system, which is heavily taxpayer supported, is widespread throughout populated areas of the country, excels in vocational ed and retraining and has very low tuition.</p>