Biden makes another push for tuition-free community college. It may work [Video]

When President Joe Biden unveiled the details of his Plan B for student loan forgiveness, he revealed that his hope to make some college free was not dead.  

“I also want to make community college tuition free so you don’t need loans at all,” Biden said after including free community college as part of his $7.3 trillion budget for fiscal 2025.

Unlike loan forgiveness, free college is a better way to combat the college affordability crisis, some experts say — and although a federal effort has yet to get off the ground, it could have a good chance of securing widespread approval going forward.

“Student loan forgiveness is a Band-Aid,” said Ryan Morgan, CEO of the Campaign for Free College Tuition. “It’s not a permanent solution but it’s certainly better than nothing.”

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