How Mrs. Clinton Would Pay Tuition Bills
It is with a sad heart that I have to say I agree with this editorial (read all of it). I think her old plan was fine. Living in a red state of
Walkers Wisconsin--he will never match these grants. He has turned down the Million dollars that would have helped set up Obamacare and has not expanded Medicaid!!! He has drastically cut education to both public schools and Universities.
How Mrs. Clinton Would Pay Tuition Bills
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/opinion/how-mrs-clinton-would-pay-tuition-bills.html?smid=tw-share
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
JULY 8, 2016
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Hillary Clinton introduced her plan for college affordability on Wednesday. Credit Eric Thayer for The New York Times
The cost of college is choking off opportunity in the United States, preventing some young people from getting an education and leaving others struggling to pay off their debt. Eager to woo young voters who cheered the proposal by Bernie Sanders for tuition-free public colleges, Hillary Clinton unveiled a similar initiative this week.
Mrs. Clinton’s plan would allow families with incomes of up to $125,000 to attend in-state public colleges or universities tuition free. A big chunk of the bill would go to the states, which would match federal contributions according to a formula that has not yet been determined. The initiative would begin by covering students from families earning $85,000 a year or less. The yearly income cap would rise by $10,000 a year, reaching the $125,000 ceiling in 2021, when it would cover about 80 percent of American families with college-age children.
The broad proposal Mrs. Clinton laid out on Wednesday is a credible start, but it could face the same hurdles that she identified in Bernie Sanders’s plan. His plan called for free tuition at public colleges for everyone, even the wealthy, through a federal matching program that would place one-third of the tuition burden on states.
Mrs. Clinton dismissed Mr. Sanders’s proposal as impossible to carry out because it would require Republican-led states to supply the money needed upfront — the same states that have largely refused to expand Medicaid as part of the Affordable Care Act. Her plan would require a lesser, but still substantial, commitment from those states.
When Mrs. Clinton first addressed college affordability a year ago, she proposed helping students graduate without debt if families paid a “realistic contribution” toward tuition. The family’s share is dropped in the new plan, which would be paid for in part by ending some of the tax breaks used by private equity firms and hedge funds.
The state matching program would require reversing a yearslong trend toward deep cuts to education in most states. -..................
The initiative’s $125,000 ceiling is too high, some education policy makers say, providing free tuition to students from families that can afford to pay..................
Mrs. Clinton says college affordability will be near the top of her list of priorities if she becomes president. That’s welcome news for struggling students and their families. But in the long run, she will win over more of Mr. Sanders’s young supporters by heeding her own valid critique of his plan, and developing more realistic improvements.......................
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