{"id":3617,"date":"2015-01-15T14:09:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T20:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2015-01-15T14:09:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T20:09:38","slug":"obama-proposes-free-community-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/obama-proposes-free-community-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Proposes Free Community College"},"content":{"rendered":"

by\u00a0Lindsay Koshgarian<\/a>, National Priorities Project
\nclick here for original article<\/a><\/p>\n

The White House has announced that President Obama will reveal a proposal to\u00a0allow students to attend community college free<\/a>\u00a0for up to two years.<\/p>\n

The proposal could save full-time community college students an average of $3,800 per year, benefitting as many as 9 million students.<\/p>\n

As it\u2019s been described, the proposal would offer states federal funding that would cover 75% of the cost of the first two years of college. To receive the money, states would have to provide the other 25%. By one estimate, this could come at a cost of about\u00a0$60 billion over a decade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many other advanced nations have free or much lower cost advanced education than the U.S. Students attending college in the U.S. take out increasingly exorbitant loan amounts, and end up deferring homeownership and marriage as a result. And the U.S. produces fewer college graduates than other advanced nations \u2013 we are only\u00a012th\u00a0in the world<\/a>\u00a0in college graduations.<\/p>\n

The payoff to a college degree \u2013 associate\u2019s or bachelor\u2019s \u2013 is significant. Workers with associate’s degrees can in some cases\u00a0outearn even those with a bachelor\u2019s degrees<\/a>.\u00a0 But many students drop out of school before they earn a degree,\u00a0often for financial reasons<\/a>. Eliminating the tuition hurdle could dramatically increase how many students earn a college degree.<\/p>\n

This proposal is one that has serious potential to address economic inequality, and investment in education is widely favored by the American public. We\u2019ll be keeping an eye on this proposal in the State of the Union and the President\u2019s Budget.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, feel free to let us know what you\u2019d like to see in the president\u2019s state of the union address next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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