Public service by america asking Television Companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Education secretary duncan to testify this past week on President Trumps 2018 budget request which includes spending cuts for Public School programs and a proposal that encourages state and local districts to introduce policies for parents. The subcommittee hearing is just under two and a half hours. The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, and Human Services will come to order. Morning to everybody, particularly good morning secretary devos and thank you for appearing before the this is a difficult budget request to defend. Just over one month ago, the Congress Overwhelmingly passed and resident signed into law a bill that included 161 billion in discretionary funding for this subcommittee. While that was a billion dollars less than we had the year before , we were able to eliminate in a way that allows things to do things like returned to yearround hell for
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They have a free are looking for ideas but it is a broad incentive for colleges to counsel students how much they borrow. Right now the action makes the hard for colleges. So the federal government is a but for that unemployment ruled that is but this is the mandate applied to all colleges a and universities. They dont have to do principate but tennessee has 13 Community Colleges and two are dropping some of and broaden there he was. But what kind of a response did you get . To with that accreditation more than anything else just to give them more flexibility maybe that is true but i can tell you about a student aid and then i can tell about the regulation. To provide students and is there any advance on that . A good reaction the problem i have been authorized eight times since 1965 with the of wellmeaning senators and bureaucrats here is the clause is regulations and stack them up stack of up the stack was already as tall as i was it the new would double the stack that is why we need
Tuition. What new York Governor Andrew Cuomo is proposing for two and fouryear degree are for state klemps for low and middle income families. Sounds great. But its one part of paying for an education. That is our cover story the cost of college. If you come from any family earning 125,000 or less, the state will provide free tuition. The average cost of tuition at a Public College nationwide is approaching 10,000. At private schools its more than 33,000. But thats only part of the actual cost. Room and board averages more than 10,000 at public klemps and even larger expense in tuition. Nearlies 12ds,000 at private schools. More than 20 million americans attend private or universities and many taking on massive debt. In 1996 the average College Student graduated with nearly 13,000 in loans. The 2016 graduates that number nearly tripled. It should be a wakeup call to this nation if you really want to be competitive globally we have to have the best educ e educated work force. So is Gove
Income families. Its just one part of paying for an education. That is our cover story, the cost of college. If you come from any family earning 125,000 or less, the state will provide free tuition. The average cost of tuition at a Public College nationwide is approaching 10,000. At private schools its more than 33,000. But thats only part of the actual costs. Room and board averages more than 10,000 at Public Colleges and even larger expense than tuition. Its fearly 12,000 at private schools. Nearly 20 million americans attend college or university and many are taking on massive amounts of debt. In 1996 the average College Student graduated with nearly 13,000 in loans. For 2016 graduates that number nearly tripled. It should be a wakeup call to this nation to say if you really want to be competitive globally we have to have the best educated work force. So is Governor Cuomo right . Beth akers is a senior fellow at the manhattan institute. And why dont we start with you. You are a grad