Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120407:14:35:00
Is college still worth it given the cost that students are now facing? >> well, it is absolutely worth it, melissa, for a number of reasons. you have to differentiate between the public colleges where states have the lowest level of subsidies to the public colleges ever. the santa monica college case is useful to look at, because california has been cutting. what it does for colleges, and that is a community college, and they have had to eliminate over 1,000 sections of classes since 2008. so obviously when you eliminate the classes and the students are going to community colleges at record ra...