Channel: PBS NewsHour

Category: News & Politics

Tags: collegefree community collgetuition costsrethinking collegeaffording collegealamo promise programhigher educationsan antoniocommunity collegefree community collegeeconomic mobilitypost secondary educationcost of collegesubsidized collegestudent debtstudent loans

Description: President Biden proposed providing two years of tuition-free community college after he took office, but the idea was dropped after congressional opposition. Yet efforts persist at the local and state level to boost college attendance. More than 400 such programs now exist in the U.S., including in San Antonio, Texas. Hari Sreenivasan reports for our series, "Rethinking College." Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: bit.ly/2HfsCD6 Follow us: Facebook: pbs.org/newshour Twitter: twitter.com/newshour Instagram: instagram.com/newshour Subscribe: PBS NewsHour podcasts: pbs.org/newshour/podcasts Newsletters: pbs.org/newshour/subscribe