The endorsement kicks off a weekend of campaigning in Iowa, home of the nation’s first presidential caucuses.
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Trump will arrive in the $7 million helicopter before holding a press event. Tom Harkin, who served in the Senate for three decades before retiring in 2014. On Saturday Clinton will attend the Iowa State Fair, a traditional stop for presidential hopefuls.
“No student should have to borrow to pay tuition at a public college or university”, said Clinton.
She’s come up with a plan to tackle student debt called the College Compact plan. States would have the flexibility to tailor the application process and set other eligibility standards. She is hosting a town hall meeting on her college affordability plan in Dubuque, Iowa, just across the Mississippi River from Wisconsin. She followed it with two days of campaigning on the issue in New Hampshire prior to ending the week in Iowa.
To do so, states will have to do their part by reinvesting more in higher education.
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Harkin says in the op-ed published online Thursday night that Clinton “has devoted her career to championing the needs of children” and has been a “tireless advocate for women and families”.
