One of the few things that Michigan has made positive news for in the past few years was the Kalamazoo Promise program, in which a bunch of very generous philanthropists (it’s pretty clear who at least a few of them are but I am not telling the internet) said in effect ‘if you put your back into high school and get accepted to an instate public school, we’ll foot your entire in-state college education for four years’. (If you immigrated to Kalamazoo, they foot a percentage of your bill.)
The program has been such an insane, stupid success that the nice guy in the picture above is trying to emulate it on a state-wide level, by levying a few taxes, creating a few new lottos, and moving some funds around after that.
This plan is still in the early stages and the not-too-fond-of-taxation Michigan Republicans have not even so much as looked at this yet, of course, but shit.
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