Pete Buttigieg: I Also Live with a Six Figure Student Debt

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BUTTIGIEG: “This is a personal issue for us because we live with six-figure student debt. In particular in speaking with students and policy makers in New Hampshire, I've learned to the extent that in-state tuition is higher than it would be to go out of state to a lot of other states, which defeats so much of of the purpose of having institutions that there supposed to build up the life of our state. Makes it that much harder if you're committed to being part of the community. One in the question that you raised is through a combination of carrots and sticks, we've got to induce states to carry more of the burden, rather than pass it on to students. Students are getting squeezed because states are less and less willing to make sure it's truly affordable. On the back end we've got to work on student loan debt.”