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This is ready for her book. Thanks. ** *HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON* *REMARKS ON COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY AND STUDENT DEBT* *EXETER, NEW HAMPSHIRE* *MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2015* It’s wonderful to be back in Exeter. Thank you, Danny, for that introduction. And thank you all for coming out today. I’ve been traveling all over New Hampshire, and everywhere from Dover to Nashua to Glen to Windham, people ask great questions. It must come from being the first primary state. So today, I want to talk just a little, and then I want to hear what’s on your mind. This election is about the choices we have to make as a country, and how they’ll shape the future for our children and grandchildren. I believe that, in America, if you work hard and do your part, you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead. That’s the basic bargain that’s always set our nation apart. And I want to make sure we strengthen that bargain, so it holds true for this generation and the next. Thanks to the hard work of people across the country, America has come back from the worst recession of our lifetimes. We’re standing again. But we’re not yet running the way we should. Corporate profits are near record highs – but most paychecks have barely budged. Costs for everything from childcare to prescription drugs are rising faster than wages. It’s no wonder that many Americans feel like the deck is stacked in favor of those at the top. We’ve got to do better. We’ve got to get incomes rising again, so more hard-working families can afford a middle-class life. That’s the central economic challenge of our time – and it’ll be my mission every single day I serve as President. We need strong growth… fair growth… and long-term growth. *That’s* how we’ll achieve lasting prosperity – by building an economy that we *all* have a stake in, and that works for *everyone*. Today, I want to talk about one way we can ease the burden on families – and the single biggest way we can raise incomes: *by making college affordable and available to every American. * For millions of Americans, a college degree has been the ticket to a better life. My grandfather worked his entire life in a lace mill, but my dad made it to college. He was able to start his own small business, and that made a huge difference in our lives. Then my parents saved for years so they could send me to a school across the country. They knew that they were setting me on the path to a better future. College still holds that promise. A lot has changed in this country – but *that* hasn’t. Parents who never had the chance to go to college themselves dream of seeing their kids get that degree, from the moment they’re born. High-schoolers – even middle-schoolers – are taking college prep courses and studying for the SAT. Full-time workers are taking courses online, even if that means heading straight from an eight-hour shift to a pile of homework. If that’s what it takes to get a better job – to give their kids better than they had – then they’ll do it. But here’s the problem. States are slashing education budgets. Colleges keep raising prices. In-state tuition and fees for public colleges increased by *42 percent *between 2004 and 2014. But your incomes didn’t rise by that much, did they? So families are left facing a painful choice. Either you say, “We just can’t afford it,” and pass up on all the opportunities that a degree offers – or you do whatever it takes to pay for it, even if that means going deeply into debt. Now, for most people, the return on investment of a college degree is still worth it. On average, people with four-year degrees earn over half a million dollars more over their careers than people with high school degrees. But student debt is increasingly holding people back. Forty million Americans have student loans. Together, they owe more than a trillion dollars. New Hampshire’s students are carrying the highest debt in the country. And millions of Americans are delinquent or in default. Even if they do everything they can to pay their loans, they just can’t keep up. The cost of this debt is real – not just on balance sheets, but in people’s lives and futures. I’ve talked to people who have so much student debt, they’ve put off buying a house, changing jobs, starting a business – even getting married. I’ve met parents and grandparents who’ve co-signed loans and end up draining their savings or ruining their credit – all because they did what parents and grandparents are supposed to do – help out the next generation. There are students who take out loans to pay for an expensive degree from a for-profit institution – only to find little support once they actually enroll, or they graduate and discover that, when it comes to finding a job, their degree isn’t worth what they thought. Then there are the students who start college but never finish. They’re left with debt and no degree to show for it – the worst of both worlds. Over 40 percent of college students still haven’t graduated after six years – and many never do. It’s time to show some tough love to colleges and universities that let significant numbers of students fail, year after year. Here’s the bottom line. College is supposed to help people achieve their dreams. But more and more, paying for college is actually pushing people’s dreams further out of reach. And that’s just wrong. It’s a betrayal of everything college is supposed to represent – and everything families have worked so hard to achieve. And you know, this is also about America creating the greatest workforce in the world in *this* century – just like we did in the last. The rest of the world is working as hard as they can to out-do us. China plans to double the number of students enrolled in college by 2030, which means they’ll have nearly 200 million college graduates. That’s more than our entire workforce! American workers can out-work and out-innovate anyone in the world. They deserve training and education that will help them do it. So we need to make some big changes. We need to transform how much higher education costs – and how those costs get paid. For too long, families have been left to bear the burden of crushing costs, underinvestment, and too little accountability. *It’s time for a new college compact, where everyone does their part. We need to make a quality education affordable and available to everyone willing to work for it – without saddling them with decades of debt.* I’ve been traveling the country for months, talking to students and families, educators, legislators, and experts of every stripe – including young progressive activists who’ve put the issue of debt-free college and affordability at the top of the national agenda. And today, I’m announcing my plan to put college within reach for everyone. We’re calling it the New College Compact. We’re posting it on our website, Facebook, Medium, Snapchat – just about everywhere we can think of. I hope you’ll check it out. But for now, here are the basics. Under the New College Compact, no family – and no student – should have to borrow to pay tuition at a public college. Schools will have to control their costs and show more accountability to their students. States will have to meet their obligation to invest in higher education. The federal government will increase its investment in education, and won’t profit off student loans. And everyone who has student debt will be able to refinance it at lower rates. That’s my plan. It’s ambitious – and we should be ambitious. But it’s also achievable. And it would make a big difference in people’s lives. The New College Compact comes down to two main goals. *First, we’ll make sure that cost won’t be a barrier**. * Under my plan, tuition will be affordable for every family. You’ll never have to take out a loan to pay for tuition at your state’s public university. We’ll make sure the federal government and the states step up to help pay the cost, so the burden doesn’t fall on families alone. Of course, these days, tuition isn’t enough. The cost of living at college has also been creeping up. So under my plan, students who qualify for Pell Grants will be able to use them for living expenses – and middle-class students will get more help to cover theirs, too. We’re also going to make community college free. That’s President Obama’s plan and we’re making it ours. And if students start at a community college and transfer to a four-year school, we’ll make sure their credits count and their transition is seamless. We’re going to work closely with Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic-Serving Institutions, because they serve some of America’s brightest students, who need the most support and too often have gotten the least of it. We’ll offer special help to college students who are parents, because when you help parents get an education, you’re helping their kids, too. And we’re going to help pay for college for students who perform national service. If you’re willing to tutor America’s kids or clean up our parks or help communities hit by disasters, the least we can do is support your education. *Our second big goal is to make sure that debt won’t hold anyone back. * For the millions of Americans who already have student debt, my plan will give you the chance to refinance at lower interest rates. If you can refinance your mortgage or your car loan, you should be able to refinance your student loan. It’s just wrong that people are locked into college loans at 8, 9, even 10 percent. If you *do* end up taking out a loan – for example, to go to a private college or graduate school – we’ll cut your interest rates, so the government never makes a profit off your loan. We’ll make it easier to enroll in income-based repayment programs, so you’ll never have to pay more than 10 percent of what you make – and your debt will only last for a fixed period of time. It won’t hang over your head forever. We’re going to help borrowers who are in default get back on their feet. And we’ll crack down on predatory schools, lenders and bill collectors. If you defraud students, overcharge veterans, or mislead borrowers, we’re going to do everything we can to stop you. There’s a lot more in my New College Compact – from strengthening the G.I. Bill, so more veterans can get their degree... to making sure that colleges spend federal dollars on things that benefit students, like teaching and research – not marketing campaigns or big salaries for administrators. And we’re going to do a lot to encourage innovation. Here’s one example. Workers are increasingly rebooting their careers through online programs – yet many students can’t use federal student aid to pay for them. If earning online certificates, badges, or nano-degrees helps people improve their job prospects, we should be making that option easier and more affordable. Under my plan, more students will be allowed to use student aid to pay for high-quality programs. And we’ll make sure that rules about accreditation don’t keep out promising online education companies. We want to keep quality high – without stifling innovation. Now, the reason I call this a College *Compact *is because it goes both ways. Everyone’s going to have to step up to the plate. We can’t fix the problem of rising costs and rising debt just by throwing more money at the problem. We can’t expect the federal government to just pay the bill for free. That’s not how America works. States will have to start investing in education again. Colleges will have to do better by their students. And Americans will have to work hard to put themselves through school, and to out-learn and out-hustle our competitors – just like they always have. But here’s the bottom line. An education shouldn’t be something just for those at the top. And it shouldn't be a burden. An education should be affordable – and available – to everyone. I remember how proud my parents were when I graduated college. I remember how proud Bill and I were to see Chelsea graduate – I’ll never forget how grown-up she looked that day. And even though my new granddaughter is already growing up faster than I’d like, I can’t wait to see her walk across a stage someday and receive her diploma. And I know that mothers and fathers and grandparents across the country feel the exact same way. I want every young person in America to have their shot at that moment. I want every hard-working parent out there to get the chance to see his or her child cross a stage – or to cross it themselves. America should be a place where those achievements are possible for anyone who’s willing to work hard to do their part. That’s the country I want to help build – for this generation and all the generations to come. Thank you very much. And now, let’s hear from you.