Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has gotten some well-deserved rebukes for the limited college-debt relief plan she unveiled Tuesday in Denver for graduates who start new businesses.
If Clinton wants to give away money to people who will eventually be wealthy, this proposal is a great idea, writes Alexander Holt in Inside Higher Ed.
“The best plan would simply declare a college debt ‘jubilee’ a wholesale cancellation of the $1.3 trillion millstone on 42 million college students and graduates, from young millennials to retirees who are having their Social Security checks garnished by college debt collectors.”
Similarly, Salon staff writer Ben Norton said that Clintons proposal would inevitably disproportiona…
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