Reality Check: Higher ed and student debt
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to addressing the high cost of higher education, the difference between Clinton and Trump is much more than apples and oranges. That's according to one of our guests in part one of our reality check on issues in the presidential campaign.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Josh Barrow. |
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| 0:38.9 | Reality Check, Higher Education and Student Debt. |
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| 0:48.9 | With the presidential campaign now focused on personalities and family histories, |
| 0:53.1 | how is a voter to know how either candidate |
| 0:55.1 | might actually govern. This is the first of a five-part series exploring issues that could be |
| 1:00.5 | critical for people trying to make up their minds. Hillary Clinton is a known policy walk |
| 1:05.7 | with detailed plans for college affordability and how to pay for it. That invites both support and criticism. |
| 1:13.2 | Donald Trump has made just a few statements, leaving supporters and critics to speculate about |
| 1:18.5 | what he might actually try to do. That's our major topic today. On our talking point later, |
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| 2:02.0 | point. When it comes to addressing the high cost of higher education, the difference between Clinton and |
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