Create a plan to make public college tuition-free. Rather than continuing to pour billions more into financial aid programs that often fall short of tuition costs and leave students deep in debt, lead an effort to fund tuition-free public college. The money is there but the leadership isn't.
Why is this important?
Did you know that making college tuition-free would cost less than what we already spend on the patchwork of financial aid programs we currently support? According to a recent accounting taken by the U.S. Dept. of Education, the cost of making college free is $62.6 billion. That's less than one-10th of this year's $631 billion defense budget.
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If we made just small cuts to Welfare and the large benefits public unioins enjoy, we can easily pay for this.
SO YOU PAID FOR YOUR TUITION?
