What Will Jill Biden Push For As First Lady?
KEY POINTS
Jill Biden plans to make education a priority as first lady
She ll push for debt-free community college, and continue to teach personally at a community college
It will likely be a more active schedule than Melania Trump s, who preferred to take a back seat on the national stage
Jill Biden hopes to take education to the forefront of politics as she enters the position of first lady, pushing for debt-free community college and continuing to teach students personally. It will be a departure from the Trump administration, where Melania Trump’s “Be Best” campaign was largely abandoned.
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“I ve had a lot of experience in community colleges, and they were virtually free after the GI Bill, [when] the country came forward and together said, ‘We are going to give this benefit of college opportunity to every GI, every veteran returning,’” Martha Kanter, former U.S. undersecretary of higher education in the Obama administration, told Yahoo Finance Live (video above).
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computer users. brown: in the first of two reports, paul solman assesses the true cost of student-loan debt, now topping $1 trillion. reporter: beth hansen has just started making loan payments: $468 a month. will she ever pay off her loans? i may die first. so. in which case, they would need a copy of my death certificate to finally cancel my loan. woodruff: ray suarez talks with dolores huerta, honored with the presidential medal of freedom for her efforts to secure higher wages and better working conditions for farm laborers. i came to the homes of some of these farm workers. their furniture was orange crates and their children were barefooted and i thought, this is wrong. brown: and we remember folk and blgrass legend guitarist and singer doc watson. that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: growing up in arctic norway, everybody took fish oil to stay healthy. when i moved to the united states almost