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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 08:22 AM Sep 2016

Trump tests new message on college affordability, a key issue for Clinton

By Jose A. DelReal and John Wagner September 22 at 10:37 PM

ASTON, Pa. — Donald Trump said Thursday that he would make lower college tuition a priority in his administration, his most extensive remarks to date on college affordability, an issue that Hillary Clinton has made central to her pitch to millennial voters.

Addressing a rally here, the GOP nominee said that universities should use their tax-free "multibillion-dollar endowments" to help students with tuition and debt, but that instead too many sit on the funds or invest them.

“Instead these universities use the money to pay their administrators, to put donors names on their buildings, or just store the money, keep it and invest it. In fact, many universities spend more on private-equity fund managers than on tuition programs,” he said. “But they should be using the money on students, for tuition, for student life and for student housing. That's what it's supposed to be for.”

Trump said that he would work with Congress to encourage universities to lower tuition costs — or risk losing federal tax breaks. But he offered few other specifics Thursday night. “The students are choking on those loans. They can't pay them back. Before they start, they're in trouble. And it's something I hear more and more and it's one of the things I hear more than anything else,” he said.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/09/22/trump-tests-new-message-on-college-affordability-a-key-issue-for-clinton/?wpisrc=nl_politics&wpmm=1

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Trump tests new message on college affordability, a key issue for Clinton (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2016 OP
A Trump University on every corner, just watch. eShirl Sep 2016 #1
They already do you moron but they don't empty the bank every semester underpants Sep 2016 #2
Apparently Trump misses the irony of him advising actual universities on how to manage student debt. yellowcanine Sep 2016 #3
+1! GreenPartyVoter Sep 2016 #5
"Tests message" v. "Describes feasible policy" alcibiades_mystery Sep 2016 #4
Hahaha! Trump cares! LOL! Madam45for2923 Sep 2016 #6

underpants

(182,270 posts)
2. They already do you moron but they don't empty the bank every semester
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 08:43 AM
Sep 2016

If they did there'd be no more endowment.

Does this dumbass know anything about investing and finance?

yellowcanine

(35,692 posts)
3. Apparently Trump misses the irony of him advising actual universities on how to manage student debt.
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 09:01 AM
Sep 2016

Last edited Fri Sep 23, 2016, 09:41 AM - Edit history (1)

Seriously he would be better off keeping quiet about this. The one-liner at a debate or the election ad writes itself.

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