Its just one part of paying for an education. That is our cover story, the cost of college. If you come from any family earning 125,000 or less, the state will provide free tuition. The average cost of tuition at a Public College nationwide is approaching 10,000. At private schools its more than 33,000. But thats only part of the actual costs. Room and board averages more than 10,000 at Public Colleges and even larger expense than tuition. Its fearly 12,000 at private schools. Nearly 20 million americans attend college or university and many are taking on massive amounts of debt. In 1996 the average College Student graduated with nearly 13,000 in loans. For 2016 graduates that number nearly tripled. It should be a wakeup call to this nation to say if you really want to be competitive globally we have to have the best educated work force. So is governo beth akers is a senior fellow at the manhattan institute. And why dont we start with you. You are a graduate of the State University of
Not moving it these days. Also fed chair janet yellen shes already required to appear before the house and senate twice each year to test a Monetary Policy. Apparently thats not enough. Coming up, House Financial Services Committee Chair Jeb Hensarling to explain why he wants to see her double her appearances on capitol hill. Hewlettpackard and gap, well have the incident analysis of all the numbers as soon as they are released. Both those sectors. Hewlettpackard has turned out some great numbers the last cup of quarters. Gap, retail been very mixed. And hewlettpackard. David faber will join us on that one as well after the bell. First, lets get right back to this market. The dow up 17. The s p adding six points. The nasdaq 20 points. The nasdaq by far the outperformer today. Lets get to our Closing Bell Exchange for this thursday. Joining us cnbc contributeor heather hughes. How are you . Good. James lu is with us here at the new york stock exchange. Joe duran from United Capital Fina
A Global Warming, and as you indicated, now changing over to a Global Climate change, it is not the lower 48 Climate Change. We could dot something unilaterally in the United States while the rest of the world is going to be dependent on fossil fuels for a long, long time . Th are burning a coa a cold plant a week. They are barely keeping up with their demand. Here here in the United States re pro prohibiting thewe a construction of the newhi coal plants it doesnt make sense to penalize when if indeed this is going on it calls for a global reaction. You are seeing what is happening in europe right now. They were the first group of countries to sign on to the kyoto protocols. They were the first half to be able to meet the targets. In the United States we didnt sign on to the protocols but guess what the measures are the lowest theyve been in 20 years. We beat the system. So what can we do while having a manufacturing renaissance brought back to the United States while gaining the leade
Being proposed in one state or another so even though it seems we just got through a few weeks ago, insurers are already proposing their rates for the department of insurance for the coming year. What we are going to try to do today with the help of a group of panelists with analytical firepower is to help explain what those numbers mean and what importance we should place on them. One fact i would like you to keep in mind is most of the members you will be hearing referred to policies in whats called the individual market and in the year 2012 about 19 Million People were covered in that market out of the 267 on the elderly americans who have coverage from all sources. As interesting as this discussion will be remembered that it applies to about 7 of americans with coverage. We are pleased to have the Commonwealth Fund a century old philanthropy to establish a commonwealth and we are pleased to have as the moderator the Vice President for federal and state Health Policy somebody with a
Cenk well see you later tonight for a whole other the young turks on the young turks. Com. Viewpoint is next. [ theme music ] john Pope Benedict xvi is abdicateing the papacy. They have apparently decided there is no god. Karl rove is an arrogant right winger who wants to privatize social security, cut taxes for the rich and never admit hes wrong. Why does the tea party hate him . You think these people could put aside their differences, Work Together and get rid of the fighting and combine and join forces to ruin the country and make things better for rich people. Finally tomorrow night is president obamas state of the union address. Everyone is wondering what hes going to proposed proposed propose. Today is the 79th birthday of tina louise known as ginger from billgilligans island, and the great r b singer dangelo, and sarah palin with the greatest abdication of all time. This is viewpoint. [ music ] john good evening, im John Fugelsang. Coming up, equality delayed but not completely