...don't address the costs of education, but instead give a temporary "out" to some students (while allowing interest to continue to accrue on their loans). It's a typically technocratic policy proposal, thinking that tweaks like this will "spur innovation". It's another of those "solutions" that insist on making it into a private-enterprise deal, rather than an issue of governance. And time will tell about the overall quality of the enterprises that such a policy will engender. I'll bet there will be a large percentage of them started up only to get the protection, without much if any real innovation going on at all.
Also, as to the 50,000 new computer science teachers: as a software person myself I think that's great. But it does seem to be in conflict with her policies on H1B visas, which she wants more of -- even though we already have qualified IT professionals here in the USA who can't find work (in spite of the claim that businesses "can't find enough talent in the US"
. So how does that work? We get more IT professionals and then export them?
Oh well. Sure she's better than Trump, by a long (very, very long) shot. But oh, what could have been...
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