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pinebox

(5,761 posts)
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 10:39 AM Oct 2015

Bernie vs Hillary:Who Has the Best Plan For College Students?

And away we go!
There is a lot of info here and honestly, it paints the very stark differences between the 2 candidates college plans. I'd love to copy and paste it all here but it would be too much.

https://berniesanders.com/sanders-vs-clinton-who-has-the-best-plan-for-americas-college-students/

Sanders vs. Clinton: Who Has the Best Plan for America’s College Students?

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have had fundamentally different responses to this crisis. While those differences have been papered over by some in the media, as well as some progressive groups, they are real – and they are significant.

The Sanders plan provides tuition-free public higher education to every qualified student. The Clinton plan does not.

The Sanders plan treats higher education the same way we have treated other forms of education in the past: Every young person who studies hard and succeeds in school should be able to get the education they need. By contrast, the Clinton plan charges tuition to middle-class students, using an as-yet unspecified formula based on a family’s income.

The Clinton approach is unnecessarily complicated.


The Clinton plan is unnecessarily complicated and difficult to administer. It leaves a number of key questions open to manipulation by future politicians, such as: What are the thresholds for paying part of the tuition? What’s a reasonable percent of family income to pay into the program?
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Bernie vs Hillary:Who Has the Best Plan For College Students? (Original Post) pinebox Oct 2015 OP
Acutally, Martin O'Malley has the most workable, most comprehensive plan FSogol Oct 2015 #1
Bernie. Autumn Oct 2015 #2
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