Jillian Berman
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159 appearances
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first heard Sep 2017
last heard Sep 2024
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historically black colleges and universities people would argue that an investment like that could help make those schools more affordable and then finally a big step that they took with the intention of making college more affordable was to revamp the fafsa which is the form that students and families use to provide for financial aid they made it a lot simpler but the launch of that effort was filled with glitches and people worry those glitches actually threw off
a lot of low-income students in their sort of efforts to pay and attend college.
So on the Democratic side, they haven't really talked about it much.
And it appears they're going on their record of what they've already done, which was student debt forgiveness.
They've attempted to reform repayment plans so that borrowers would be paying a lot less.
But all that stuff has kind of been blocked at the courts.
And then free community college thing, which is actually a pullback a little bit from what they committed to in 2020, which was making four-year public college free for a certain segment of the American public.
On the Republican side, President Trump hasn't said a ton on that.
We know that he does not like the student debt forgiveness that's happened so far, and Republicans in general don't like the efforts to reform repayment.
He did pretty early on in his campaign this time around pledge to create a sort of free
free online university.
And the idea is that the government would use money from taxes on wealthy universities' endowments to fund a free online school that would compete directly with colleges and universities already on the market, would issue degrees, would provide courses.
And sort of the idea is to just find a new funding source to create a competitor to the entrenched higher education system.
I've been following this issue of free college and efforts to bring college costs down for a long time.
And this campaign cycle really marked a sort of a change where we have Democrats really are talking more about not everybody has to have a four year degree.
The Democratic Party platform is talking about investing both in community college, but also trade school.
And then on the Republican side, there has been across states and in the national rhetoric, growing skepticism of Democrats.
you know, what we might call, quote unquote, traditional higher education.
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