On the heels on the last post I just wrote, I read this article in The Chronicle, a journal for higher education.

In it, it describes President Bush's plan to remove postsecondary education as an activity that qualifies as work, which in turn, qualifies those on welfare to receive benefits.

As a college student, I'm dumbfounded and a little offended.

Bush is saying that college is not work?

I understand that the system is abused and we should crack down on individuals who take advantage of loopholes. But I would think that any man or woman who is in college, by grace of federal funding alone, would appreciate that, and apply themselves. If I'm wrong, I stand corrected.

"The new rules... [state] explicitly that baccalaureate and advanced-degree programs cannot count."

But even if the number of students on welfare that are actually working toward a degree is low, is it fair to deny them the means to make something of themselves? Furthermore, doesn't a college education greatly increase the employability and desirablility of a person?

I still feel there's some other way to solve welfare fraud without throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There has to be, because this is not an acceptable solution to me.

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