It would cost a mere $34 billion to make college affordable for everyone

The $34 billion price tag includes what it would take to make a college degree affordable for both first-time, full-time students as well as part-time and adult students. To put that in context, it’s equivalent to just 7% of the $469 billion increase in discretionary defense spending over the next 10 years proposed by the White House in the budget plan released last month. More...