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Obama pushes $60 billion plan for free community college
Yahoo! News ^ | January 9, 2015 | Steve Holland

Posted on 01/10/2015 6:48:14 AM PST by Kaslin

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama promoted a proposal to offer two years of free community college tuition to students on Friday but the plan and its $60 billion pricetag over 10 years immediately faced skepticism from Republican lawmakers.

Obama floated the education idea on the third and final day of a tour to promote agenda items being prepared for his Jan. 20 State of the Union address, a speech that will be his first to the U.S. Congress since Republicans won the Senate in November elections.

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To: SZonian

I’m going back to college...always wanted to study Spanish and other things as an adult and NOW’S MY CHANCE....yippee!!!!!


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