Weak sauce. http://thinkprogress.org/education/2015/01/09/3609832/obama-community-college-free/ --------------------------snip If President Obama truly wants to transform the cost of higher education, however, he could make college free for all students <http://thinkprogress.org/education/2014/01/12/3151391/cost-public-college-free/> without having to lay out more money to pay for it. That’s because the federal government could take the $69 billion it currently spends to subsidize the cost of college through grants, tax breaks, and work-study funds and instead cover tuition at all public colleges, which came to $62.6 billion in 2012, the most recent data. (The government spends another $197.4 billion on student loans.) That would give all students who want to get a college degree a free option to do so. It could also put pressure on private universities to compete with the free option by reducing their costs, which have risen 13 percent <http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/08/14/2460861/the-cost-of-a-public-four-year-college-has-risen-27-percent-over-five-years/> over the last five years.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Robert Naiman <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, add this to the minimum program: two free years of community college > for students making good progress towards completing a program. > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/us/politics/obama-proposes-free-community-college-education-for-some-students.html > > ==== > > Robert Naiman > Policy Director > Just Foreign Policy > www.justforeignpolicy.org > [email protected] > (202) 448-2898 x1 > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >
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