>There is nothing beautiful about how President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” worsens the national nursing and teacher shortage.
>The Trump administration is attempting to redefine what a “professional degree” is, and graduate programs such as education and nursing are left off the list. This is not only insulting to these noble professions, but it also reduces the amount of federal loans graduate students can take out to pay for their education.
>Under new provisions in the bill, degrees designated as “professional” can receive up to $50,000 a year in federal student loans, while all other graduate degrees are capped at $20,500 annually. Meanwhile, the [average master’s degree costs $62,820](https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-a-masters-degree) over two years, far exceeding the maximum loan for “non-professional” degrees.
>The Department of Education claims these provisions will lower college tuition costs, but there’s no proof that’s true. If the Trump administration really wants to make college more affordable, they should start by undoing the reckless education policies they enacted this year.
>They should end their unlawful attempt to dismantle the Department of Education and work with Congress to build a stronger, more affordable educational future.
>I believe that higher education is too expensive. I also know targeting nurses and teachers won’t make it any more affordable. It’s time the Trump administration realizes that too.
EconomicRegret on
> *”Hard disagree!”*
Signed by Russia, China, Iran and North Korea
Dwayla on
That one big beautiful bill will be the death of us, one way or another.
>Now, we have a nursing shortage that will only worsen if the Trump administration’s proposal goes into effect, forcing even more people out of the health care field.
>My state of North Carolina currently projects a [13 percent nursing shortage by 2035](https://www.aacnnursing.org/news-data/fact-sheets/nursing-shortage), and as high as 26 percent in other states, even before this reckless proposal. If enacted, it will be disastrous for our health care system.
We are at the point of disaster right now. Many rural hospitals in my state are closing, and that will make people have to drive hours to get to the nearest emergency room just to make anything work. It’s awful. The plutocracy of America is making everything incredibly dystopian now.
MiraBloomlet on
You can’t strengthen a country while underpaying the people who hold it together.
>As a former educator of 40 years, I have seen firsthand how low wages, poor working conditions and lack of institutional support impact teachers. Adding an impossible financial hurdle will only turn more people away from the profession.
As a teacher from Oklahoma, I can attest to the nightmare that these education policies are doing to our state. Most of the teachers are approaching retirement levels, and we have no one else on the way to help out.
Our state has had a teacher shortage of over 1,000 for years now, and this year, we received more than 3,500 emergency certifications, and having to hire overseas teachers as well. No one wants to go into teaching, and most teachers are saying not to do so. Our education in America is about to collapse if things don’t improve.
We don’t need higher loan amounts. We need more affordable universities. Trim the administrative overhead and increase state funding.
Also every college whose sports teams are losing money need to lose the sports teams. Students taking on extra debt to support college football is grotesque. But it does make sense for the teams that generate profits.
justtakeapill on
Who needs nurses when we have leeches?
justtakeapill on
Who needs teachers when we have FAFO?
1sixxpac on
3 more years .. will our country make it?
StarshipFan68 on
Nurses and teachers are overwhelming women — and maga considered them barely human. Calling them professionals puts them at the same level of respect as men, and they can’t tolerate that
renegade_yankee on
Both professions feel burned out, disrespected, underpaid and not backed by their superiors.
The turnover rate for healthcare and public education is undeniably growing and the scary part is that nobody is doing anything to fix the underlying issues.
SpectralAlolanRaichu on
They’re already lost and we’re already in hell
LyraPetalZoey on
This shouldn’t even be controversial, nurses and teachers are core infrastructure. Respect, support and pay them accordingly. It’s that simple.
HaxanWriter on
And yet they’re going to lose them because they’re too cheap to pay them an appropriate wage.
leighla33 on
Thought they were no longer deemed professions /s
Probable_Bison on
This particularly hurts undeserved communities, including those in rural areas that have a hard time attracting new employees.
So it’s a delayed middle finger from Trump to hid own constituents.
And they will blame Democrats for the nurse shortage.
againandagain22 on
Dare you to spend a month subbed to r/teachers and r/nurses
The craziest, most dystopian stories
Automatic_Spread_655 on
Lack of teachers isn’t as big of a problem as is lack of curriculum. I work in a high school in the Midwest, and it’s scary how many words the kids don’t know the definition of, and I’m not talking complicated words either.
lumphinans on
There is a massive cohort of teachers retiring over the next few years in the US. There are already shortages in most states and this situation is only going to get worse when you add the increasing numbers of teachers leaving the profession for reasons other than retirement to the numbers retiring.
GestureArtist on
As if the rich give a shit about your health or your children. See Epstein, see the AI arms race where spending trillions of dollars on “AI” is more important than your healthcare, your job. As long as the rich have private doctors and care, they dont give a shit what happens to the rest of us.
Glad-Process-3268 on
Teaching is a great field if you can overcome unprepared parents and middle management hubris. K-12 students are great human beings.
Shiftymennoknight on
the American Federal Government is waging war aginst women
ToubDeBoub on
Losing them will have no effect on the numbers commonly used to determine a country’s health. American education and health care were already abysmal before Trump took a chainsaw to them.
nerdmoot on
I was a teacher for 23 years in Ohio. It’s just such an unbelievable shitshow. I couldn’t do it anymore.
mathiaus002 on
Pay them!
BenNitzevet on
Nurses are welcome in Canada!
(Sorry teachers we’re probably not hiring right now as we have an adequate supply.)
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>There is nothing beautiful about how President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” worsens the national nursing and teacher shortage.
>The Trump administration is attempting to redefine what a “professional degree” is, and graduate programs such as education and nursing are left off the list. This is not only insulting to these noble professions, but it also reduces the amount of federal loans graduate students can take out to pay for their education.
>Under new provisions in the bill, degrees designated as “professional” can receive up to $50,000 a year in federal student loans, while all other graduate degrees are capped at $20,500 annually. Meanwhile, the [average master’s degree costs $62,820](https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-a-masters-degree) over two years, far exceeding the maximum loan for “non-professional” degrees.
>The Department of Education claims these provisions will lower college tuition costs, but there’s no proof that’s true. If the Trump administration really wants to make college more affordable, they should start by undoing the reckless education policies they enacted this year.
>They should reinstate the SAVE Plan, the most affordable federal student loan repayment option that helps [7.7 million Americans](https://www.straighterline.com/blog/how-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-changes-college-costs-and-what-students-can-do-about-it) repay their student loans, which has been paused by the Department of Education and will be [eliminated by 2028](https://www.npr.org/2025/12/09/nx-s1-5638567/save-plan-student-loan-settlement).
>They should stop treating the [Public Student Loan Forgiveness program as a weapon](https://www.npr.org/2025/11/03/nx-s1-5591157/trump-pslf-teachers-loan-forgiveness) to punish anyone whose values don’t align with the administration’s agenda — including teachers and nurses.
>They should end their unlawful attempt to dismantle the Department of Education and work with Congress to build a stronger, more affordable educational future.
>I believe that higher education is too expensive. I also know targeting nurses and teachers won’t make it any more affordable. It’s time the Trump administration realizes that too.
> *”Hard disagree!”*
Signed by Russia, China, Iran and North Korea
That one big beautiful bill will be the death of us, one way or another.
>We have [5 million Americans](https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2025/oct/expiring-premium-tax-credits-lead-340000-jobs-lost-2026) set to lose their health care entirely next year because they can no longer afford their premiums.
>Now, we have a nursing shortage that will only worsen if the Trump administration’s proposal goes into effect, forcing even more people out of the health care field.
>My state of North Carolina currently projects a [13 percent nursing shortage by 2035](https://www.aacnnursing.org/news-data/fact-sheets/nursing-shortage), and as high as 26 percent in other states, even before this reckless proposal. If enacted, it will be disastrous for our health care system.
>Already, patients, hospitals and health care providers are suffering from Republicans’ [$1 trillion](https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61570) in Medicaid cuts, [$500 billion](https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-08/61659-SPAYGO.pdf) in Medicare cuts and the failure to renew the Affordable Care Act enhanced premium tax credits — all of which will result in [15 million Americans losing their health care](https://democrats-budget.house.gov/legislation/republicanhealthcarecrisis).
We are at the point of disaster right now. Many rural hospitals in my state are closing, and that will make people have to drive hours to get to the nearest emergency room just to make anything work. It’s awful. The plutocracy of America is making everything incredibly dystopian now.
You can’t strengthen a country while underpaying the people who hold it together.
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>Nationally, [1 in 8 teaching positions](https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/overview-teacher-shortages-2025-factsheet) remain unfilled or filled by teachers not fully certified for their teaching assignments. At the same time, [interest in teaching](https://edworkingpapers.com/ai22-679) among high school and college students is at its lowest point in decades, and [less than one-fifth](https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2024/2024039M.pdf) of teachers leaving the profession are doing so to retire.
>As a former educator of 40 years, I have seen firsthand how low wages, poor working conditions and lack of institutional support impact teachers. Adding an impossible financial hurdle will only turn more people away from the profession.
As a teacher from Oklahoma, I can attest to the nightmare that these education policies are doing to our state. Most of the teachers are approaching retirement levels, and we have no one else on the way to help out.
Our state has had a teacher shortage of over 1,000 for years now, and this year, we received more than 3,500 emergency certifications, and having to hire overseas teachers as well. No one wants to go into teaching, and most teachers are saying not to do so. Our education in America is about to collapse if things don’t improve.
[https://www.newson6.com/tulsa-oklahoma-education/oklahoma-schools-battle-teacher-shortage-with-emergency-certified-teachers](https://www.newson6.com/tulsa-oklahoma-education/oklahoma-schools-battle-teacher-shortage-with-emergency-certified-teachers)
“AI will solve it!” – billionaires/grifters
We don’t need higher loan amounts. We need more affordable universities. Trim the administrative overhead and increase state funding.
Also every college whose sports teams are losing money need to lose the sports teams. Students taking on extra debt to support college football is grotesque. But it does make sense for the teams that generate profits.
Who needs nurses when we have leeches?
Who needs teachers when we have FAFO?
3 more years .. will our country make it?
Nurses and teachers are overwhelming women — and maga considered them barely human. Calling them professionals puts them at the same level of respect as men, and they can’t tolerate that
Both professions feel burned out, disrespected, underpaid and not backed by their superiors.
The turnover rate for healthcare and public education is undeniably growing and the scary part is that nobody is doing anything to fix the underlying issues.
They’re already lost and we’re already in hell
This shouldn’t even be controversial, nurses and teachers are core infrastructure. Respect, support and pay them accordingly. It’s that simple.
And yet they’re going to lose them because they’re too cheap to pay them an appropriate wage.
Thought they were no longer deemed professions /s
This particularly hurts undeserved communities, including those in rural areas that have a hard time attracting new employees.
So it’s a delayed middle finger from Trump to hid own constituents.
And they will blame Democrats for the nurse shortage.
Dare you to spend a month subbed to r/teachers and r/nurses
The craziest, most dystopian stories
Lack of teachers isn’t as big of a problem as is lack of curriculum. I work in a high school in the Midwest, and it’s scary how many words the kids don’t know the definition of, and I’m not talking complicated words either.
There is a massive cohort of teachers retiring over the next few years in the US. There are already shortages in most states and this situation is only going to get worse when you add the increasing numbers of teachers leaving the profession for reasons other than retirement to the numbers retiring.
As if the rich give a shit about your health or your children. See Epstein, see the AI arms race where spending trillions of dollars on “AI” is more important than your healthcare, your job. As long as the rich have private doctors and care, they dont give a shit what happens to the rest of us.
Teaching is a great field if you can overcome unprepared parents and middle management hubris. K-12 students are great human beings.
the American Federal Government is waging war aginst women
Losing them will have no effect on the numbers commonly used to determine a country’s health. American education and health care were already abysmal before Trump took a chainsaw to them.
I was a teacher for 23 years in Ohio. It’s just such an unbelievable shitshow. I couldn’t do it anymore.
Pay them!
Nurses are welcome in Canada!
(Sorry teachers we’re probably not hiring right now as we have an adequate supply.)