Obama Suggests Money Spent on Incarcerations Could Fund University Tuition
Yes, by all means. Let’s just let everyone out of jail. Student loan debt crisis solved!
This report comes from VOX, of course.
Obama: $80 billion spent on incarceration could eliminate tuition at public universities
Mass incarceration costs the US more than $80 billion in a year. That’s how much corrections expenditures cost the US — mostly state and local governments — in 2010, according to the Hamilton Project.
In a tweetstorm following his speech at the NAACP’s 2015 national convention, President Barack Obama provided a different way to look at that cost by explaining what that $80 billion could go to:
We could eliminate tuition at every public college and university in America with the $80 billion we spend each year on incarcerations.
— President Obama (@POTUS) July 14, 2015
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