Student debt hobbles our economy

“Americans owe nearly $1.3 trillion in student loan debt, spread out among about 43 million borrowers. In fact, the average Class of 2016 graduate has $37,172 in student loan debt, up six percent from last year.” Google: “A Look at the Shocking Student Loan Debt Statistics for 2016”

Hillary and Bernie are in complete agreement that this is a totally unsatisfactory state of affairs and will work to make higher education affordable and available to all who meet college requirements. That’s affordable, not free. I know it can be done because we’ve done it before.

I graduated with a bachelor’s deg...