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    College Education should be free. Initially, my first reason will be about how it manages to help poor students get an education. Furthermore, my second reason will be about how more people would be able to venture onto college. To sum up, my last reason will be that students will have more freedom to choose a major they enjoy. Here is my information to prove this. For my introductory reason, free college education would help poor students get educated. Indeed, some people are very poor. There

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    “"Free" is a word with a powerful appeal. And right now it 's being tossed around a lot, followed by another word: "college."” (Kamenetz).The debate surrounding free community college for all is becoming rather controversial. Since there has been no law set in place federally some states are taking aim. Washington has a scholarship program called “Washington Promise” that supports what this act is all for. As the world continues to flatten, it seems the only way to compete in the globalized economy

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    Free College! Do you think college tuition should be free? If you didn't give it much thought, you might be inclined to say yes. It seems like a no brainer, right? Free college means more educated people, which leads to a more educated society, which ultimately means a better quality of life. Unfortunately, if you immediately jumped to that conclusion, then you have decided on an impulse feeling and not an educated, rational thought or idea. This is simply because free college is not a viable option

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    chose to go to community college for many reasons, one being its the cheapest. There are many students out there who doesn’t get financial aid or scholarships so they go to community college. In the article, “ As He Promotes It, Some Question’s Free Community College Idea” by Joanne Jacobs, it explains why and why not community college should be free by giving the audience pros and cons for each opinion. President Barack Obama believes that community college should be free while Felipe Bezerra doubts

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    College Should Be Free to Attend According to USA Today, In 2017, the graduating class of colleges will come out with a four year degree and close to $30,000 of debt from student loans (“The Average Student Loan Debt in Every State”). The idea of free college was recently brought up in the 2017 presidential campaign by Bernie Sanders. He made it clear that if he became president, he would use the taxpayers money to make college free. College should be free to attend due to the fact that people who

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    Every year millions of high school graduates enroll in college and every year millions of graduates come out of college with an average debt of $25,000. But is it really worth it to go to college for a couple years and trying to balance your life with classes, work, exams and debts. For most students college alone is tough enough with trying to learn, deciding what you want to do later in life and then the costs are there too. Trying to pay for your tuition, for your housing, food and clothes are

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    Should Community College be Free? In the article, “As He Promotes It, Some Question Obama’s Free Community College Idea” written by Joanne Jacobs, the author states the different arguments between whether or not Obama’s idea of making community college free is a good idea for both the institutions and for the students planning on attending. This can then lead to colleges not getting any funding because they won’t be getting any money, tuition wise, from the students but rather the government. Although

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    complete the task. This would be very similar to providing a chance at a free college education, in which that chance at free education would be wasted by those who wouldn't follow through. College education shouldn't be free to everyone because it would raise taxes that would burden the working class, and would be taken advantage of by the lethargic people in our society. In the first place, noting in this world is truly free. As stated in a national newspaper, New York Times, Andrew P. Kelly, director

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    would be put into the colleges would be detrimental to the United States economy. Free college is a controversial subject because some people think it will help the economy and so think it won’t. Free college would be horrible to have in the United States people would suffer a lot more, hurt economy and we don’t want that. College should not be free because taxes would be higher, students would take it for granted, and debt will increase. First college should not be free because taxes would be

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    $25,620 just for a college education, research has shown the average bachelor's degree holder takes 21 years to pay off his or her loans. This leads to the question if college tuition should be free or not. While some may believe it ought to be others disagree. People like Arne Duncan believe college tuition should be free. “The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.” Meanwhile people such as Matt Bruenig disagree. “Making college free for everyone would

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