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Hechinger Report higher-education editor Jon Marcus appeared on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show to speak about whether cost is keeping people from higher educations at a time when some presidential candidates have proposed making college free.

Several callers also gave accounts of how they or their relatives or friends had been thwarted by the cost of college.

Find the audio of the program here.

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Interview with Hechinger: Will the candidates’ proposals for free or cheaper college work?

by Hechinger Report, The Hechinger Report
May 26, 2016

<h1>Interview with Hechinger: Will the candidates’ proposals for free or cheaper college work?</h1> <p class="byline">by Hechinger Report, The Hechinger Report <br />May 26, 2016</p> <p>Hechinger Report higher-education editor Jon Marcus appeared on WNYC’s <em>Brian Lehrer Show</em> to speak about whether cost is keeping people from higher educations at a time when some presidential candidates have proposed making college free.</p> <p>Several callers also gave accounts of how they or their relatives or friends had been thwarted by the cost of college.</p> <p>Find the audio of the program <a href="https://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/622796">here</a>.</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://hechingerreport.org/interview-hechinger-will-candidates-proposals-free-cheaper-college-work/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://hechingerreport.org&quot;&gt;The Hechinger Report&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-favicon.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://hechingerreport.org/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=27903&amp;amp;ga4=G-03KPHXDF3H&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://hechingerreport.org/interview-hechinger-will-candidates-proposals-free-cheaper-college-work/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hechingerreport.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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