{"id":938,"date":"2016-04-22T17:37:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T21:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/?p=938"},"modified":"2016-04-23T11:07:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T15:07:05","slug":"yes-bernies-plan-to-make-college-free-would-be-a-gift-to-rich-kids-that-doesnt-make-it-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/2016\/04\/22\/yes-bernies-plan-to-make-college-free-would-be-a-gift-to-rich-kids-that-doesnt-make-it-a-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Bernie\u2019s Plan to Make College Free Would Be a Gift to Rich Kids. That Doesn\u2019t Make It a Bad Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[pe2-image src=&#8221;https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-whNRlOoyQEo\/VxuOuUd1S-I\/AAAAAAAABFQ\/HmYaVyxY0rUcYqXOitT9lAgP57V9LCBLACHM\/s144-c-o\/20160422_1737%2BYes%252C%2BBernie%25E2%2580%2599s%2BPlan%2Bto%2BMake%2BCollege%2BFree%2BWould%2BBe%2Ba%2BGift%2Bto%2BRich%2BKids%2B%2528Slate%2529.jpg&#8221; href=&#8221;https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/102930737536139888016\/CampaignV4April#6276767432089881570&#8243; caption=&#8221;Yes, Bernie\u2019s Plan to Make College Free Would Be a Gift to Rich Kids. That Doesn\u2019t Make It a Bad Idea By Jordan Weissmann,  Slate (Friday, April 22, 2016 5:37 pm) &#8212; Nobody would ever accuse Bernie Sanders of trying to coddle the rich. But some certainly think his plan to abolish tuition at public colleges would end up wasting a whole lot of money on them. Hillary Clinton, for her part, likes to say she\u2019s \u201cnot in favor of making college free for Donald Trump&#039;s kids.\u201d1 This week, meanwhile, a new report from Brookings confirms that getting rid of tuition entirely at state schools would disproportionately benefit upper-income students.Does that really mean abolishing tuition at State U. is a terrible idea? Not necessarily. The fact that free college would benefit everyone from Trump to the people who clean his towers might actually be an argument in its favor. http:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/?p=938&#8243; type=&#8221;image&#8221; alt=&#8221;20160422_1737 Yes, Bernie\u2019s Plan to Make College Free Would Be a Gift to Rich Kids (Slate).jpg&#8221; ] Yes, Bernie\u2019s Plan to Make College Free Would Be a Gift to Rich Kids. That Doesn\u2019t Make It a Bad Idea.<br \/>\n By Jordan Weissmann,  Slate<br \/>\n (Friday, April 22, 2016 5:37 pm) &#8212; Nobody would ever accuse Bernie Sanders of trying to coddle the rich. But some certainly think his plan to abolish tuition at public colleges would end up wasting a whole lot of money on them. Hillary Clinton, for her part, likes to say she\u2019s \u201cnot in favor of making college free for Donald Trump&#8217;s kids.\u201d1 This week, meanwhile, a new report from Brookings confirms that getting rid of tuition entirely at state schools would disproportionately benefit upper-income students.<\/p>\n<p>Does that really mean abolishing tuition at State U. is a terrible idea? Not necessarily. The fact that free college would benefit everyone from Trump to the people who clean his towers might actually be an argument in its favor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/moneybox\/2016\/04\/22\/bernie_sanders_free_college_plan_would_benefit_rich_kids_so_what.html\">(Read more.)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pe2-image src=&#8221;https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-whNRlOoyQEo\/VxuOuUd1S-I\/AAAAAAAABFQ\/HmYaVyxY0rUcYqXOitT9lAgP57V9LCBLACHM\/s144-c-o\/20160422_1737%2BYes%252C%2BBernie%25E2%2580%2599s%2BPlan%2Bto%2BMake%2BCollege%2BFree%2BWould%2BBe%2Ba%2BGift%2Bto%2BRich%2BKids%2B%2528Slate%2529.jpg&#8221; href=&#8221;https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/102930737536139888016\/CampaignV4April#6276767432089881570&#8243; caption=&#8221;Yes, Bernie\u2019s Plan to Make College Free Would Be a Gift to Rich Kids. That Doesn\u2019t Make It a Bad Idea By Jordan Weissmann, Slate (Friday, April 22, 2016 5:37 pm) &#8212; Nobody would ever accuse Bernie Sanders of trying to coddle the rich. But some certainly think his plan to abolish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,167,29,84],"tags":[173,637,107,641,129,640,638,550,434,639,642,643],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bernie-sanders-2016","category-campaign-2016","category-news","category-politics","tag-173","tag-april-22","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-brookings-report","tag-campaign-2016","tag-college-tuition","tag-jordan-weissmann","tag-presidential-campaign-2016","tag-presidential-primary","tag-slate","tag-urban-institute-senior-fellow-matthew-chingos","tag-wallstreet-speculation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}