Sen. Bernie Sanders
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Podcast Appearances
70 years ago, I don't know how many people know this, most or many public colleges and universities were tuition-free in America.
Sure.
My parents went to City College.
There you go.
Great universities.
It was free.
California, highest quality education, tuition-free.
And now working class families can't afford to send their kids to college.
Right, right, right.
What they end up doing is coming up with very complicated proposals.
You make $48,964.
Yes!
You will get this thing.
You make a dollar more, you're finished, and blah, blah, blah, blah.
Look, we have got to make it simple.
In the wealthiest country in the history of the world, should health care be a human right?
Yes, it should be.
Should we have the best quality education in the world from child care to graduate school?
Yes, we should.
Right, but these are... How do you... Let's get there.