Beshearo World: Task Forces > Action
During his campaign, Governor Beshear outlined a plan to create a program to guarantee college affordability for Kentuckians. Now he’s not so sure. Instead of action, he's proposing a task force.
True to his love of more government, the governor is creating a task force to “study affordability of and access to higher education.” Although there’s always the obvious, supply-and-demand truth that college in Kentucky is more expensive because there more students, why not keep a bunch of your political friends busy to help you put off action on a campaign promise?
It's not as if solutions are unavailable.
The article suggests that:
“If action were not taken, it would be impossible to reach a goal of doubling the number of holders of bachelor's degrees to 800,000 by 2020, interim council president Richard A. Crofts said this summer.”
Of course, Kentucky’s Long Term Policy Research Center has shown long ago that Kentucky’s biggest impediment to reaching the double the numbers goals is a lack of population (see 'Step 5').
