But you have to be in Texas.
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University of Texas is progressive? What in the fuck is going on?
Meanwhile, in California, we fuck students in the ass with our prices and we don't have free tuition.
If you're a student moving to Texas because of this, I can't even blame you at this point.
As someone who went there yes it is. It’s in austin too
Wait, good news? I’m waiting for a republican judge or the house to somehow block this.
Read OP's last sentence.
Oh, yea. Checks out
Socialism in my Texas?!?! /s
It’s more likely than you think.
Love this. Forgiving student loans is a band-aid. Making higher education free or more affordable is the real solution.
I wonder if anyone will get strategically divorced to stay under the limit.
I make too much to take advantage of this so obviously I hate it.
Just kidding, I'm fucking excited for the folks who will get to take advantage of this program. Fuck the lawmakers trying to axe this.
It doesn't even make sense. This will cause people to move to the state. Don't they want more tax income and wage slaves?
They hate education and the educated.
This is pretty neat. Did not expect this at all. Going to look into it more.
I guess at least you won't be paying to get screwed, that's a pretty significant upgrade from most universities.
Reminder to everyone, college and university didn't used to cost verymuch. Governor of California Ronald Reagan didn't like the Vietnam War protests happening on University of California campuses and decided to change the university funding model to make students pay a lot more for their education and reduce the number of protesters. President Nixon saw this and asked for advice to stop college protests nationwide.
Let me know when they start doing this for graduate students.
On paper this sounds good but this sounds like another way to keep rich families rich. The only way to get into UT these days is have connections, or be really good at something like football or very high gpa. The high gpa and football people were already getting scholarships so guess who will get this new money? People that already had the money to pay for the school.
Did you miss the part where it only goes to families making under 100K? You got a funny definition of “rich”.