Susan Bysiewicz Quotes
We have a great location between Boston and New York, a highly educated work force, and Connecticut is a beautiful place to live.
Bysiewicz, Susan. "Business Services." Connecticut Secretary of the State, State of Connecticut, 2004.
What his research has shown is that advanced degrees and advanced skills de not enable a person to earn more money in most areas of the nation as it did in 1970. Only in some areas called “means metros” can these skills produce an economic advantage for the worker. So educated and skilled people are abandoning many areas like Detroit or Cleveland for areas like New York City, Seattle or Austin—the means metros.
profit making schools of higher education The latter years of the 20th century saw a large increase in the number of proprietary, profit making colleges and other institutions of higher education. These were able to utilize the Federal student loan programs. However, many were fraudulent rip-offs. Most were unaccredited. The average proprietary school obtained more federal student loan money per student than non-profit schools {639817}, and did not train their students as well. A smaller percentage of their students get their degrees and find jobs. When they do obtain employment they make less money. Congressional pressure, induced by heavy lobbying, stopped Department of Education efforts to make schools with poor graduation or employment rates ineligible for use of Student Loan Programs.
Bush was the first President to explicitly and publicly explain to Americans the relationship between successful high school and college graduation and unemployment where it did not exist. We were moving ourselves into the information age.
Susan Bysiewicz is an American politician who is the 109th lieutenant governor of Connecticut, serving since January 9, 2019. She previously served as the 72nd secretary of the state of Connecticut from 1999 to 2011. She was briefly a candidate for governor of Connecticut in 2010, before dropping out to run for Connecticut Attorney General. She was disqualified from running for the office by the Connecticut Supreme Court and announced in 2011 that she was running for the United States Senate in the 2012 election to replace the retiring Joe Lieberman. She lost the Democratic primary to U.S. Representative Chris Murphy, who went on to win the general election.
