Because tuition, room, and board are fixed expenses, and with more work you can take fewer classes, and so might need to take an extra year as a result.

For example, take the cost of fees and tuition for a year at the University of California. It's $30k a year for in state. $7 x 10 hours a week for the semester adds up to around $10k a year. Not much more than the $30k for an extra year. And then there's the lost salary you could make the 5th year.

Truly insulting from someone who thought she was dead broke after leaving the Presidency and gets paid $400k a speech.

Remember Bill Clinton's 'New Covenant' speeches in 1991? This is exactly from that playbook. You rhetorically match a 'responsibility' to every 'right.' It's supposed to be a way to sell liberal programs to swing voters who like social programs but worry about moochers. Do they still exist in large numbers? What do I know, but it sounds about, say, 24 years out of date to me.

We should not and must not ask our college students to go to school full time and have a job to boot.

do they have to turn over their medical records to prove that school is already enough for them to cope with? including psyche records, which as supposed to be ultra-confidential?

to be perfect in every way - captain of the football team, all AP classes, winner of the science fair, on and on and on

This is how it is in India, China, Japan. You are groomed as a single individual without any connection to the world around you. No sense of common good, everything is for your own advancement. The pressure is intense. NYT ran a recent article about women committing suicide on campus over pressure to be perfect.

What the fuck makes us think these systems are so much better? Look at these nations' social problems from corrupt government with massive poverty to filthy living conditions and then tell me all the smart people are in Asia because their test scores are so good.

We are going in the WRONG direction.

Sounds like Hillary is pandering in advance.

I worked through high school and college and now law school.

with the idea of a adding legislation to require the poor to get a job to pay for the benefit.

She is also promoting a right wing meme that poor people are lazy and they need to be required to work (by law) for benefits.

In fact, as the article points out, 80% already do work out of necessity.

It is truly a stupefying example of right-wing triangulation.

Now - the other difference is, after working and struggling through high school and college and ending up in debt, the jobs waiting at graduation are going to China and India and soon to be Vietnam.

Thanks to more conservative memes about Americans not working hard enough, nor smart enough.

Hillary is choosing her issues carefully. We see the side she's on and it is not the side of working Americans.

She's stuck in the 1960s Goldwater glow.

he doesn't punch poor people with a STUPID remark about forcing poor students to pull their weight.

How is that bad?

Democrat since liberating Iraq, Syria and Libya by massive violence in order to punish innocent people for the leadership we directly or indirectly propped up for decades.

And again, you're assuming people both rich and poor don't want to work. I am living it. No one doesn't want to work.

conservative values.

You say you're in law school. You should have a debt in the six figures by now.

Good luck paying that off under Clinton's plan.

How about requiring ball & chains too.

I knew I heard this idea before... Hillary paints lipstick on a pig.

Newt Gingrich Defends Call For Poor Kids To Work As Janitors During 2012 South Carolina GOP Debate
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/16/newt-gingrich-kids-janitors-south-carolina-debate_n_1209476.html

I don't see any problem with students working 10 hours per week to help pay for their college.

No tuition debt; lower costs of living; free community college... And working 10 hours a week is a problem?

The only access like that has been the GI Bill, which took a lot more than 10 hours a week and was not a voluntary commitment until relatively recently.

I don't see anything here to complain about.

But only applying it to poor students is not fair. In fact it's insulting.

Now poor students have to work a lot more than 10 hours a week to afford what rich kids' parents cover.

Seriously?

This stems from the GOPs "Poor people are poor because they are lazy" position.

Shameful if true.

something. It's condescending and arrogant. What we want is that this government invest in its young people rather than in WARS, I read today that she thinks 'it's time to start talking about the business opportunities provided by the Iraq War'.

I would not take blood money like that if you gave it to me for nothing.

She made similar comments about making people, mostly poor people of course, 'less dependent' when she pushed that awful Welfare Bill that has so harmed women and children.

So condescending and so lacking in understanding of what 'responsibility' means.

I wonder if she feels the same way about holding her friends, like Jaimie Dimon responsible?

I'm so glad I don't have to try to defend any of this. You simply can't.

This will both insure that rich kids have the scholastic advantage they so richly deserve, while supplying a huge new source of cheap, reliable, subsidized labor to giant retail and fast food chains!

Keep wages low!

email reform.

and drive wages down, making it even more difficult for heads of households to feed their families.


And, desperate, busy people make better wage slaves and more obedient citizens, and wage slaves are good for increased corporate profits.


An added bonus for the neoliberal Third Way and Republican capitalists is that working 10 hrs a week will force most students to spend more cash just going to work than they will earn. And the amount of sheer waste that will generate more profit will be substantial.


Once again, all good for corporate profits, and keeping people in line. Busy people don't have time to think. People who don't think don't question authority.


Crush all the life and hope out of the people, boost profits for the the 1%.


It's like Bill Clinton's work for welfare plan!


The system works!

Bravo, Zorra!!!

I took that to be a way of reducing the amount of work poor students do; ten hours sounds like the student aid jobs.

To quote a particularly annoying person of little consequence:

"You seem to be pissing off all the right people."

(And keeping true to form: )