Free college

While Buttigieg supports lowering the cost of a higher education, he said, he doesn’t support making college free.

“Americans who have a college degree earn more than Americans who don’t,” he said. “As a progressive, I have a hard time getting my head around the idea of a majority who earn less because they didn’t go to college subsidizing a minority who earn more because they did.”

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Have to admit I never thought of it like that.

To remedy the student debt crisis and the cost of college, Buttigieg instead suggested looking at Pell Grants, states covering a higher proportion of the cost of education than students, a more generous and accessible program for loan forgiveness, and looking at interest rates to refinance loans.