The State of the Union is an important annual speech in America, where the president reports on the condition of the nation and proclaim the legislative agenda and national priorities. This year, the State of the Union is took place at the floor of the the House of Representatives, President Barack Obama, on his second to last of his presidency, issued several liberal proposals to Congress. These programs include a child-care tax credit, free community college.
In his speech, he mentions about the free community college for students in two years. The president’s proposal is to raise the quality of students and lower the cost of community college to zero. He would like to give a chance to get free college for students of any age, and encourage them to keep the grade up and graduate on time. One of the reasons he wants the Congress to pass this plan because he believes that in the non stop growing economy nowadays, the students would need to get a higher education to qualify for a job in the future as he mentions in his speech “By the end of this decade, two in three job openings will require some higher education. Two in three. And yet, we still live in a country where too many bright, striving Americans are priced out of the education they need. It’s not fair to them, and it’s not smart for our future”. Besides, he points out two places in America where each has different political party is offering the free college, which is Tennessee a state with republican leadership, and Chicago, a city with Democratic leadership. By that, he means this plan is definitely possible to spread out to all states and cities in America. Moreover, in his speech earlier in January. he suggests that Federal funding would cover three-quarters of the average cost of community college and the State funding would cover the other 25 percent. Although this plan is gonna
