http://old.warisacrime.org/taxonomy/term/255/0 en http://old.warisacrime.org/content/why-tuition-free-college-makes-sense <p>The issue of making college tuition-free has recently come to the fore in American politics, largely because the two leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, have each championed it.&nbsp; <a href="https://berniesanders.com/issues/its-time-to-make-college-tuition-free-and-debt-free/">Sanders</a> has called for free undergraduate tuition at public colleges and universities, to be financed by a tax on Wall Street speculation, while <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clinton-proposes-debt-free-tuition-at-public-colleges-1439179200">Clinton</a> has done the same, although with some qualifications and a different funding mechanism.</p> <p><a href="http://old.warisacrime.org/content/why-tuition-free-college-makes-sense" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://old.warisacrime.org/content/why-tuition-free-college-makes-sense#comments colleges Economy education universities Wed, 28 Oct 2015 20:29:39 +0000 Lawrence Wittner 70161 at http://old.warisacrime.org