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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a stay at home mom and plan to go to work full time when my DD goes to college. I have a degree in a field that's easily employable.  I will work and my paycheck will all go towards her schooling. I haven't heard of this plan elsewhere, so it doesn't really work with calculators. We do have some 529 saved and hopefully she will get some scholarships or financial aid as well.  [/quote]

That means that you were already in the luxury position of having one spouse support the family up to this point. Not relevant to the population that gets killed by the "EFC" and are already maxed out.

I hate the Rs, but if they do take control I hope they blow up the current higher education system. It's outrageous. [/quote]

They never do anything but cut taxes for the wealthy and undermine democracy (radical judges, gerrymandering, increase money in politics).  They rail about healthcare, immigration, the economy, and out of control spending, but the deficit increases every year.  They have no plan for replacing the ACA, just blow it up and we'll think of something later.  The plan for immigration is miles of wall and kids in cages.  Remember when W had a big campaign point about Social Security for his second term and did absolutely nothing? It's the same with inflation now.  They rail on and on about how it's Democrats control, but no mention of what they are actually going to do to fix that problem.  Other than another fight about a the debt ceiling, which will make it more expensive to shoulder the enormous burden.  The Democrats have plenty of problems too, but right now very little of the Republican party is interested in making the government actually run much less in a way that actually helps people.

But I would be thrilled to see participation in the federal student loan program conditioned on certain benchmarks for affordability and tuition/fee reduction. [/quote]

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