However some are wondering how Democratic officials plan to pay for tuition for those seeking higher education.
Electrical engineering student Jonathan Goodman works three jobs to pay for tuition at Indiana State University.
Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are both creating proposals that would cancel student loan debt.
“You know having a bill like this go through would mean I could actually focus on my studies and purely my studies,” said Goodman.
According to Sanders, 45 million Americans will be relieved of the financial burden via his College for All Act.
This would cancel 1.6 trillion dollars of debt and save the average borrower about $3,000 a year.
But seniors like Jordan Halsema are concerned about who will be paying for tuition.
“I know somewhere somehow probably taxpayer money will have to go into that,” she explained. “Some sort of class rank.”
Warren’s plan proposes canceling amounts of debt depending on a household’s yearly income.
While Sanders has yet to come out with specifics.
“One of the major drawbacks to it, at least the way Bernie goes about it, is he doesn’t have a plan,” Goodman said. “He just kinda says this is what we wanna do. Great.”
For those making less than $100,000 a year, $50,000 of student loan debt will be canceled according to Warren.
This would impact students and families who payed for tuition with Parent Plus loans.
“My parent had to help me get a loan because I myself couldn’t do that,” said Halsema.
Warren says those who make more than $250,000 a year will not be eligible for loan forgiveness, while Sanders is extending his College for All Act to everyone.
