Biden HE plan includes 2 years’ free community college

United States Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is proposing to guarantee two free years of community college or other training as part of a higher education plan that his campaign says would cost US$750 billion per year, write Eric Bradner and Jessica Dean for CNN.

The former vice president's plan, unveiled last Tuesday, also aims to cut student loan obligations – particularly for those with public service jobs. The plan formalises measures that Biden has frequently discussed on the campaign trail. It builds on the existing higher education framework, rather than including further-reaching proposals such as four years of free college and wiping away all student debt.

It stops short of the four years of free college tuition proposed by Biden's two leading rivals for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Similarly, Biden’s plans on student debt are less ambitious than his two main progressive challengers. Sanders has proposed wiping away all US$1.6 trillion of existing US student loan debt, while Warren says she would eliminate 95% of that debt.
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