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    'Free college' promises by presidential candidates come with pitfalls

    by Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times Jun 09, 2019 5 minutes

    It has become a cliche of this campaign: A White House hopeful pauses from a speech to invite beleaguered university graduates to shout out the size of the debt they carry - as if competing in an auction - and the numbers bellowed from the crowd spiral upward.

    In a nation where student loan debt has reached a staggering $1.6 trillion - more than double the amount just a decade ago - the call-outs are potent political theater. The promise of free college has catapulted from the fringe in 2015, when Sen. Bernie Sanders muscled the idea into presidential politics, to an urgent place in the race this year. Even President Donald Trump is trying to get in front of it.

    But the debate over college affordability involves difficult issues of equity, class privilege and how best to target government spending.

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