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Today, Explained

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Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to cancel your college debt. To pay for it, she wants to tax the ultra-rich and take more than just their income. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think that makes it 22 candidates.

0:18.2

There are a lot, yeah.

0:19.4

I think Uncle Joe is running on folks.

0:23.2

Folks America's an idea.

0:25.2

An idea that's stronger than any army, bigger than any ocean.

0:28.5

Or powerful than a dictator or tyrant.

0:33.0

To be fair, I think a lot of the Democrats are running on pure platitudes at this point,

0:37.5

but this week Elizabeth Warren unveiled a big, hefty policy plan.

0:42.8

What is it all about?

0:43.8

Well, Elizabeth Warren has really sort of made herself the kind of number one policy think

0:48.9

tank in the 2020 election.

0:50.6

She's been rolling out a ton of different policies.

0:53.3

But the latest one that she rolled out this week was this really sweeping plan that does

0:59.5

two things.

1:00.9

One, it's a proposal for universal debt free college for two and four year public schools.

1:07.2

But then there's also this big new provision that would basically wipe out the vast majority

1:13.7

of student debt in America.

1:15.1

So it would cancel up to $50,000 in student loan debt for an estimated 42 million Americans.

1:22.7

That's a ton.

1:24.1

Okay, so this is a huge proposal, but there has been a lot of talk about free college around

1:32.4

this primary and prior primaries.

1:36.5

When does this idea really begin to pick up steam?

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