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Back A Boiler sounds remarkably like a refreshingly modern approach to indentured servitude.

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Will the new animal shelter replace Almost Home?

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The funniest thing about Back A Boiler is that, six years since its creation, this groundbreaking, brilliantly innovative, game-changing effort to revolutionize the way in which students pay for college has issued only 1600 ISAs, and, as best I can tell, has spawned no similar sorts of programs anywhere else. Given that roughly 40,000 students have enrolled at Purdue during that period, I can understand Daniels not wanting to be interviewed about the program. By any reasonable metric, the program is a dud.

Of course Back A Boiler is classic Daniels: Steal an old, unsuccessful idea, repackage it as bold policy innovation intended primarily to burnish his reputation as a bold policy innovator, and then withdraw into a cone of silence as the whole thing fizzles out.

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