Free Community College

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I think making community college extremely affordable would be sufficient.  I’m not sure about Free.  People tend to take “free” things for granted.  

I agree.  In CA, CC has been affordable - $46/cr or less for many years; and yet, when the Promise program kicked in in 2020, enrollment did not go up.  Low income people already were able to go for "free" and most of the rest were already paying for it because it was pretty cheap.  So in looking at a state that has both inexpensive AND free CC, people still aren't taking advantage of it.  And many that do drop out fairly quickly.

I'm not sure what it's like in states where CC is expensive, if that will change - if people truly aren't going simply because it's too expensive.  It will be interesting to see.