Elizabeth Warren plans to cancel student debt

From: theHill.com

BY AL WEAVER – 04/22/19 08:00 AM EDT

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a 2020 presidential candidate, unveiled a sweeping plan Monday to reform higher education that would cancel nearly all student loan debt and create universal free public college.

Warren’s plan would cancel up to $50,000 in debt for 42 million Americans — 95 percent of those carrying student loan debt — and allow every American to attend a two- or four-year public college tuition-free. She added that the “entire cost” of the plans would be covered by her proposed 2 percent annual tax on families with $50 million or more, which she calls the “ultra-millionaire tax.”

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