EXCERPT:
COONS: “I say over and over, we need to be solving the problems that average Americans want us to work on, and that’s — how can we afford college for our kids, how can we afford health care for our parents, how do we deal with opioid crisis? We cannot be the party of free stuff. That doesn’t work.”
KERNEN: “Be the party of free dumb.”
COONS: “How do you want to make access to higher education work? My proposal, national service. You want to spend two years with Citi here or AmeriCorps or Teach For America, great, we’ll give you a college education, earn it.”