Breaking: Obama Proposes Free College Education To Nine Million Americans
President Barack Obama has just dropped a bombshell: free college. Watch this video.
Aboard Air Force One this afternoon, President Barack Obama recorded a video in which he announced a new initiative he will unveil during his State of the Union speech later this month: free college.
The details are sparse, but the President says he is offering up to two years of community college to anyone who is “willing to work for it.” No word yet on what that would entail.
Cecilia Muñoz, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, via Twitter said the initiative would be open to about nine million people.
President Obama’s #FreeCommunityCollege plan could benefit about 9 million students per year → http://t.co/6srBiXZmpj pic.twitter.com/zG6bcCamtr
— Cecilia Muñoz (@Cecilia44) January 8, 2015
The White House also released a clip on Vine:
https://vine.co/v/Op6YEKWLOXP
Response on Twitter was rapid and positive.
#FreeCommunityCollege This. Is. Life. Changing.
— Jenifer Daniels, APR (@jentrification) January 8, 2015
Obama announces a #FreeCommunityCollege plan… https://t.co/hRqQUiA1PR – can’t wait to see how Republicans oppose this one.
— justin kanew (@justin_kanew) January 8, 2015
This is pretty awesome. President Obama to call for 2 years of #FreeCommunityCollege for all students http://t.co/FWIOQfUdLi
— Sydney McIntosh (@SydMacCNN) January 8, 2015
Awesome RT @Simas44: BREAKING: Watch Pres Obama announce his #FreeCommunityCollege proposal → http://t.co/D3wkLcPyoU https://t.co/WyD24BSjJ6
— Lily Adams (@adamslily) January 8, 2015
If anybody is mad about the #FreeCommunityCollege I really don’t know what to say..
— carmen sandiego (@xosdlc) January 8, 2015
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