going to require a college education. so, the market is telling us we need to increase educational attainment and unfortunately of the past 30 years we have pulled back from funding it. so rather than talking about the cost we should talk about me question was, how much would it cost in do you have any vague idea, mark? i think that i don t have an exact number for tens of billions a year or hundreds of billions a year? i think the cost is very important here. tell me. i think the first thing i would say is we already are giving out hundreds of alabama year in student loans on the booked s student s that students have to pay back. so we are making the investment. unfortunately it s on the backs of recent grads on the backs of workers who are retraining for an education i have to make the point mark, it would cost hundreds of billions more, which we do not have. and that s a fact. alexandria can you tell me what you think the costs might be? look, i m one of those st
welcome back, everybody. we are continuing to follow breaking news right now. a stabbing rampage at a high school in pennsylvania. as we wrap up this hour, here s what we know so far. 19 student s and a school security officer were injured. a 16-year-old suspect, a sophomore at that school, you see him there, is in custody. pennsylvania governor tom corbett is going to visit that school some time later today. we also know that president obama has been briefed on the situation. we are going to be continuing to follow this breaking story throughout msnbc. joy reid on the reid report picks up that coverage on the other side of a quick break. stay with us. 6 then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old.
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