THE FACTS: It would be the biggest since World War II only if you don’t count Obama’s $814 billion 2009 stimulus. That would leave students still bearing the cost of room and board, which makes up more than half of the average $18,943 sticker price at a four-year public university, according to the College Board.Įxperts worry about other impacts: Will colleges raise tuition once the government starts paying, increasing the cost to taxpayers? Will more students flock to public colleges because of the subsidy, also raising costs?ĬLINTON: “In my first 100 days, we will work with both parties to pass the biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II.” Under her proposal, the government would pay for tuition at in-state colleges and universities for students from families earning less than $125,000 a year. Debt-free is a harder lift.Ĭlinton has adopted parts of Sanders’ plans to defray some of the costs of higher education. THE FACTS: Tuition-free for students who go to an in-state public college or university. Everything she mentioned, the Obama administration already is trying to do.ĬLINTON: “Bernie Sanders and I will work together to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for all.” THE FACTS: Clinton might as well have said she laid out President Barack Obama’s strategy for defeating Islamic State militants. It won’t be easy or quick, but make no mistake – we will prevail.” We will disrupt their efforts online to reach and radicalize young people in our country. We will surge our intelligence so that we detect and prevent attacks before they happen.
We will strike their sanctuaries from the air, and support local forces taking them out on the ground. Although she brings plenty of policy detail when stacked against the broad-brush ideas of her Republican rival, in some cases there’s less than meets the eye to what she says she will do.Ī college education, for example, might not end up as debt-free for everyone as she suggested.įor his part, Trump spun a story about the Iran nuclear deal that was more fiction than fact at an Iowa rally that preceded Clinton’s convention speech.Ī look at some of the claims from the political maelstrom:ĬLINTON: “I’ve laid out my strategy for defeating ISIS.
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is already trying to do.Ĭlinton spoke Thursday night to the largest TV audience she is likely to have until the presidential debates, meaning many Americans were probably hearing of her agenda for the first time. WASHINGTON – In her speech accepting the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton wrongly implied Donald Trump has proposed banning Islam in America and sketched out a plan for defeating Islamic State militants that merely mirrors what the U.S. EDITOR’S NOTE – A look at the veracity of claims by political figures
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