Most of the Democratic presidential candidates back free tuition for two-year colleges, but they’ve skipped over how it would really work
Free community college is a big hit on the campaign trail as candidates battle over student debt plans but there’s a downside — schools could be overwhelmed by a tide of new students who’d still wind up without degrees.
The questions about free college emerge as POLITICO and PBS NewsHour prepare to host the last Democratic debate of the year on Thursday at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Seven candidates — Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren, and Andrew Yang — have qualified for the debate.
Buttigieg, a moderate, has attacked some of his more left-leaning Democratic rivals over their universal plans that would wipe out the cost of tuition at public colleges and universities for everyone. Buttigieg, unlike Warren and Sanders, has proposed free public tuition based on income.“I believe we should move to make college affordable for everybody,” Buttigieg said in anreleased last month.
“We got into this crisis because state governments and the federal government decided that instead of treating higher education like our public school system — free and accessible to all Americans — they’d rather cut taxes for billionaires and giant corporations and offload the cost of higher education onto students and their families,”Others, including former Biden, Klobuchar and former Rep.
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