The costs and fees of college education in the U.S. has risen dramatically over the decades. These cost risen high enough to the point where students are estimated to be in thousands of dollars of debt as soon as they graduate college. With a growing competitive job market and with more people attending universities across the nation, it has become much more difficult for men and women to pay off their student debt. Due to the major growth in college tuition and costs, it has become one of the major topics politics. One of the products of the public’s outcry for college affordability is the College for All Act. Introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders, the bill aims to eliminate the tuition and required costs associated with attending public colleges.
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Andrew Eichen’s article “The Real Cost of College Tuition” focuses on the benefits of cost free education and if college were to be affordable, students who initially could not attend college due to the tuition and costs of higher education now have the ability to.(7) It creates the opportunity for an individual who initially had the inability to pay for college have the chance have a higher education. Another benefit is that students would not have to worry about paying off the debt they owe, and will invest their money into something else, a stimulus for the economy. With students not obligated to pay off their student debt, the money that they would save toward college tuition and costs can be applied toward other investments. This encourages individuals to purchase various goods that would promote the growth of the nation’s economy. An additional benefit to this bill being passed is that it would create a more educated and healthier workforce. Hayley Snyder of the Huffington post reported that with college becoming affordable creates an increasing number of individuals that have a higher education, increasing number of educated workforce and citizens, and eventually leads to a higher level of health and happiness of citizens who are debt free. With the College for All Act …show more content…
The increase of college costs and student debts in the United States, pushed for the action of the government to take action, such as Senator Bernie Sander’s College for All Act. The bill’s goal is to eliminate the tuition and required costs for a student to attend a public college. The benefits and the disadvantages of the bill reaching these goal establish the impact it would have in the nation if the bill were to passed. Although it is important that the federal government should manage the rising costs of public colleges, the College for All Act should not become a law since it is too radical from the current system of paying for higher
Andrew Eichen’s article “The Real Cost of College Tuition” focuses on the benefits of cost free education and if college were to be affordable, students who initially could not attend college due to the tuition and costs of higher education now have the ability to.(7) It creates the opportunity for an individual who initially had the inability to pay for college have the chance have a higher education. Another benefit is that students would not have to worry about paying off the debt they owe, and will invest their money into something else, a stimulus for the economy. With students not obligated to pay off their student debt, the money that they would save toward college tuition and costs can be applied toward other investments. This encourages individuals to purchase various goods that would promote the growth of the nation’s economy. An additional benefit to this bill being passed is that it would create a more educated and healthier workforce. Hayley Snyder of the Huffington post reported that with college becoming affordable creates an increasing number of individuals that have a higher education, increasing number of educated workforce and citizens, and eventually leads to a higher level of health and happiness of citizens who are debt free. With the College for All Act …show more content…
The increase of college costs and student debts in the United States, pushed for the action of the government to take action, such as Senator Bernie Sander’s College for All Act. The bill’s goal is to eliminate the tuition and required costs for a student to attend a public college. The benefits and the disadvantages of the bill reaching these goal establish the impact it would have in the nation if the bill were to passed. Although it is important that the federal government should manage the rising costs of public colleges, the College for All Act should not become a law since it is too radical from the current system of paying for higher