Obama Proposes Tax Credit for College Tuition

Forget mandatory public service. It would waste the students time. Such programs are useless and phony. (1) Force colleges to reduce their costs and, thereby, reduce tuition. (2) give students a good loan only if they are in a field where we need them. (3) Get tough on the deadbeats who don't repay and use loans for extended childhood. (4) Forget a tax break. Young people don't pay any taxes anyway. Typical government - come up with the worst solution to a problem.

I am all for this. I'm not joining the peace corp, but this will definitely help me because no one in my family will co-sign for me, and I am struggling to get student loans.

how about eliminating student loans altogether thus causing enrollment to drop because of high tuition and other scam fees some universities/colleges have imposed which will in turn cause tuition rates to come crashing back down to reasonable levels. No longer worth it to go into debt and no reason to go into debt to access higher learning.

100 hours is not very much . thats like 2 and a half weeks of full time. It can be done over the summer. It's worth $40 an hour . I'm all for it and if your not you must be a rich bitch.

100 hours? Obama, you should know how busy a full time student is, especially if we have jobs and want to go to graduate school. I'm still an Obama supporter, but a hundred hours every year I'm in school isn't happening.

Oh you would not do it for $40 an hour? you must be rich. I work as well and will cut my work hours for this. I sure as hell don't make $40 an hour and have no prob cutting my $10 hr job.

100 hours is like 2hrs a WEEK! You don't have 2hrs a week?

I have an internship, job, and a heavy school load. So yes, if I plan to sleep or actually do well enough to get into my graduate school of choice, it will make my schedule rather tight.
This will help some students who have the time, but it is far from a panacea.

Really, there's no need to be immature about it and calling me retarded.
No it's not that much but I don't come from a rich family so it's still $4000 that I get to save.

I make $10 an hour so it would take me 400 hours of work to pay for $4000.. I sure as hell would rather work 100 hours then 400 hours at home depot. I think people who say 100hrs is a lot are pussys who don't want to work.