Biden included the crisis of college affordability in a litany of economic pressures weighing on America's middle class. He imagined the conversations being held at kitchen tables across the country:
Like millions of Americans, they're asking questions as ordinary as they are profound, questions they never, ever thought they'd have to ask themselves.
Should Mom move in with us now that Dad's gone? Fifty, sixty, seventy dollars just to fill up the gas tank? How in God's name, with winter coming, how are we going to heat the home? Another year, no raise. Did you hear they may be cutting our health care at the company? Now we owe more money on our home than our home is worth. How in God's name are we going to send the kids to college? How are we going to retire, Joe?
And, promoting the leader of his ticket for the presidency, Biden pledged that making college more affordable would be a priority in a new administration.
Barack Obama knows that any country that out-teaches us today will out-compete us tomorrow. That's why he'll invest in the next generation of teachers and why he'll make college more affordable. That's the change we need.
Music to the ears of millions of American families.
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This IS music to the ears of millions. As a college professor who watches her students struggle with the demands of coursework and "real" work--often, over 40 hours per week--I am thrilled that the Obama/Biden team understands that college must become much more affordable for everyone.
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