Could Dismantling the Submerged State Surrounding Student Debt Pay for Free Colleges?

By Mike Konczal/Rortybomb – This is an example of what Suzanne Mettler calls “the submerged state,” a pattern where the government has, as she says, “shunned the outright disbursing of benefits to individuals and families and favored instead less visible and more indirect incentives and subsidies, from tax breaks to payments for services to private companies. These submerged policies…obscure the...