ABSTRACT
This chapter describes some of the connections between political and economic parameters that influence the reality of education in the United States. Education is a mode of subsistence and a part of the commons; it is of fundamental import for the subsistence of all people who enter into the fold of any ethnic group, any polity. Funding lies at the fulcrum of the delivery of proper public education. Education has been institutionalized since the very beginnings of literacy. Education in a capitalist environment becomes limited and focused according to the needs of capitalist development, not of human development. The back-peddling from policies that favored indigenous peoples and the policy changes in tuition for land-grant institutions create, for public institutions, a regressive position when it comes to affordable college education. All student loans should be 'forgiven' and all public and private colleges and universities should return to a tuition-free format.
