Majority of Americans support free college tuition – survey

The rising cost of higher education has hit many hard – and the result? Many are swimming in student loan debt across all corners of the world. In the US, some 45 million Americans collectively owe US$1.6 trillion student debt. It’s a national crisis and a think-tank’s recent findings suggest there is one way Americans would this to be solved: Making tuition free at public colleges and universities for all US students. Among US adults surveyed, 63 percent support tuition-free public colleges for local students, including 37 percent who strongly favour the proposal, found the Pew Research Center. Slightly more than a third oppose tuition-free college (36 percent), with 21 percent strongly opposed.