Clinton: GOP failed to mention ‘1 word’ about college costs

“There’s something wrong when students and their families have to go deeply into debt to be able to get the education and skills they need in order to make the best of their own lives”, she told students and teachers at Kirkland Community College in Monticello, Iowa, in April, shortly after announcing her campaign. “That is a betrayal of everything college is supposed to represents”.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will propose a college affordability plan in New Hampshire on Monday that would increase access to tuition grants, allow graduates to refinance existing loans at lower interest rates, streamline income-based repayment plans and police predatory lenders.

Clinton will do this, she says, by providing incentives to states that agree to provide “no-loan tuition at four-year public colleges and universities”. Clinton organizers plan to promote the plan at registration events and other gatherings kicking-off the school year, according to a campaign aide, in an effort to galvanize college students.

Clinton also pledged to continue President Barack Obama’s free tuition plan at community colleges, as well as ensuring that students will “never have to pay more than 10% of their income when repaying the loan”. Part of those limits would be cutting back on the number of itemized dedications for high earners, something Congress would have to approve.

But “while what Donald Trump said about Megyn Kelly is outrageous, what the rest of the Republicans saying about women is also outrageous”, she went on, seizing the opportunity to attack other Republicans, whom she has accused of waging a war on women.

The amount of outstanding educational loans has almost tripled over the past decade to $1.3 trillion, a reflection of the rising costs of college, an economy where more entry level jobs require undergraduate degrees and relatively stagnant personal incomes that have made it hard for parents to save for their children’s education.

Marco Rubio, who recently called for a “holistic overhaul” of higher education and is the only GOP presidential candidate to deliver a wide-ranging list of conservative solutions, described Clinton’s plan as a typical progressive approach.

Clinton’s campaign also released a video pegged to their college affordability plan.

Schneider also questioned the absence of “gainful employment standards”, which are now applied to career training programs and could be expanded to cover public colleges and universities.

Fifty-four percent of college students said Vice President Biden should not enter the race. “[Clinton] has to figure out who to raise taxes on – so this is about making doing business in America even more expensive – raising taxes, and then taking all that money and pouring it into an outdated higher education system”.

Trump said in the Republican debate on Thursday night that Clinton only attended his wedding because he donated to her campaign.

“We have a crisis in higher education today”, Sanders said earlier this year in announcing his plan.

About 43 million people in the U.S. have some form of student debt, according to the Pew Research Center, many of them younger people.

Clinton will roll out her plan during a two-day swing through New Hampshire.

College debt has become an increasingly important issue, and politicians are starting to take notice.