2024 WI Senate race: on Education


Eric Hovde: Student debt forgiveness is unfair at every single level

Student Financial Aid: Support lowering interest on student loans and/or forgiving them?

Eric Hovde (R): No. "It's unfair at every single level." Biden's debt forgiveness plan "does NOTHING to address the cost of higher education."

Tammy Baldwin (D): Yes. It "has the potential to provide significant relief to millions of borrowers." Sponsored legislation in 2022 to provide student loan forgiveness to beginning farmers and ranchers.

Source: Guides.vote candidate survey on 2024 Wisconsin Senate race Sep 9, 2024

Eric Hovde: Worry about the basics, not gender-inclusive policies

Hovde also brought up fairness when talking about allowing transgender boys to play in girls' sports. He said his daughter was a standout athlete in high school, but that her sporting career would have been dramatically impacted if she competed against athletes who were born males.

Hovde said that public schools should be more worried about teaching students about math, reading, and writing than about gender-inclusive policies.

Source: WFRV CBS on 2024 Wisconsin Senate race Oct 1, 2024

Tammy Baldwin: Create a debt-free path to nursing degrees

Baldwin: We need to focus on the workforce. We need to have multiple pathways to get a great paying job. Caring for our seniors. I believe in apprenticeships. I believe in the programs that are starting nursing programs in high school and then creating a debt-free path to getting a higher degree. There's a lot we can do and there's a lot that has already been advanced into congress to do just that.

Hovde: The problem is we have a lot of people out of the workforce today. We've got to get more people back into the workforce. That's an important part. A lot of nursing homeowners are struggling with the massive amounts of regulations that they are also dealing with Senator Baldwin and politicians that continue to heap on them. So we have to take a private-sector approach to try to drive more employment into that sector.

Source: C-Span transcript of 2024 Wisconsin Senate debate Oct 18, 2024

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Candidates for President & Vice-President:
V.P.Kamala Harris (D-CA)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.(I-CA)
Chase Oliver(L-GA)
Dr.Jill Stein(D-MA)
Former Pres.Donald Trump(R-FL)
Sen.J.D.Vance(R-OH)
Gov.Tim Walz(D-MN)
Dr.Cornel West(I-NJ) 		2024 presidential primary contenders:
Pres.Joe_Biden(D-DE)
N.D.Gov.Doug Burgum(R)
N.J.Gov.Chris_Christie(R)
Fla.Gov.Ron_DeSantis(R)
S.C.Gov.Nikki_Haley(R)
Ark.Gov.Asa_Hutchinson(R)
Former V.P.Mike Pence(R-IN)
U.S.Rep.Dean_Phillips(D-MN)
Vivek_Ramaswamy(R-OH)
S.C.Sen.Tim_Scott(R)
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