# Hillary's college plan

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-college-plan/759720>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [July 12, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-college-plan/759720 "2016-07-12T14:52:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-college-plan/759720/1 "2016-07-12T14:52:41Z")

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I do think it is a great idea, but what are the specifics of it? Free tuition \*and \*housing? Which colleges would be free to qualifying families? Will we keep the FAFSA, or will eligibility be determined some other way?

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**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-college-plan/759720/2 "2016-07-12T15:29:21Z")

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I just want a free link to explain whatever you’re talking about.

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**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-college-plan/759720/3 "2016-07-12T15:33:39Z")

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She has shifted to a more Sanders like position:

> **[Hillary Clinton Takes a Page From Bernie Sanders's College-Tuition Plan](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-college-tuition/490142/)**
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> The Democratic candidate would provide many students with free tuition, although she stopped short of making that universal.

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> On Wednesday, Clinton’s campaign announced a set of new proposals on higher education, chief among them eliminating college tuition for families with annual incomes under $125,000. It would apply to in-state public colleges and universities. On the campaign trail, Clinton repeatedly pushed for debt-free college, but the latest move is a shift toward Sanders’s position—that the federal government assume the responsibility for providing a free college education. It stops short, though, of extending that to all students, as Sanders had proposed to do.