Tom Fiegen on Education

	Tom Fiegen on Education

We are forcing a lifetime of slavery to student loans

Can think of a more bizarre policy than to tell our best and our brightest to get an education to make them more productive workers and better citizens, but that the price is a lifetime of slavery to student loans? At graduation this spring, the total of our student loans reached $1.2 trillion! Loans that our graduates cannot refinance, they will never likely pay back, and which will prevent them from ever owning a house, getting married, or starting a family. Enough of this madness! We need to make higher education free to every qualified student and we need to refinance, reform and reduce the loan burden for people who have already graduated. A mind is a terrible thing to waste -- and to enslave to needless debt. Source: 2016 Iowa Senate campaign website, FiegenForUSSenate.com , Oct 9, 2015

More funds for schools, teachers, and Head Start

Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
Increase state funding to expand Head Start programs.
Support age-appropriate sexual education programs that teach about abstinence, contraceptives and HIV/STD prevention methods.

Source: Iowa Congressional 2002 National Political Awareness Test , Nov 1, 2002

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