On opening college education for all who can benefit

[ProgressiveEconomist]

8. Feasible and much better

would be the Clinton-Obama ACP (America's College Promise), which I'm pretty sure Senator Sanders and company never really investigated.

See https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/09/fact-sheet-white-house-unveils-america-s-college-promise-proposal-tuitio

It would cost only about $100 billion a year for nationwide implementation. Unlike Bernie's cynical and impossible promise to his coterie of white millenials, ACP would provide paths out of poverty, be available to those who cannot afford to live away on-campus at the few public college locations in any state, and would increase the supply of college-educated labor for employers. Harvard economist Claudia Goldin has shown how ACP is the natural follow-on to the rise of universal public high school early last century.

Even many Republicans support the ACP idea. A version of it already has been implemented in very red TN, where it is very popular across the political spectrum.

But since it would provide very little " free stuff" to Bernie's power base, Bernie has little interest in this idea, far superior to the hare-brained, opportunistic pabulum Sanders is peddling.