【正文】 trying to find a new without a degree, she said that nobody would hire ’s story isn’t ’ve met so many Americans who are out there pounding the pavement looking for work only to discover that they need new I’ve met a lot of employers who are looking for workers, but can’t find ones with the skills they’re looking we should be doing everything we can to put higher education within reach for every American – because at a time when the unemployment rate for Americans with at least a college degree is about half the national average, it’s never been more here’s the thing: it’s also never been more who take out loans to pay for college graduate owing an average of $25, the first time, Americans owe more debt on their student loans than they do on their credit for many working families, the idea of owing that much money means that higher education is simply out of reach for their America, higher education cannot be a ’s an economic imperative that every family must be able to ’s why next week I’ll be visiting colleges across the country, talking to students about how we can make higher education more affordable – and what’s at stake right now if Congress doesn’t do something about see, if Congress doesn’t act, on July 1st interest rates on some student loans will seven and half million students will end up owing more on their loan would be a tremendous it’s pletely issue didn’t e out of some time now, I’ve been calling on Congress to take steps to make higher education more affordable – to prevent these interest rates from doubling, to extend the tuition tax credit that has saved middleclass families millions of dollars, and to double the number of workstudy jobs over the next five , over the past few years, Republicans in Congress have voted against new ways to make college more affordable for middleclass families, and voted for huge new tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires – tax cuts that would have to be paid for by cutting things like education and jobtraining programs that give students new opportunities to work and cannot just cut our way to it harder for our young people to afford higher education and earn their degrees is nothing more than cutting our own future off at the needs to keep interest rates on student loans from doubling, and they need to do it is a question of cannot let America bee a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of people struggle to get ’ve got to build an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of ’s how the middle class gets ’s an economy that’s built to I’m not only going to take that case to college campuses next week – I’m going to take it to every part of the country this , and have a great ’s Time for Congress to Pass the Buffett RuleApril 14, 2012One of the fundamental challenges of our time is building an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same as many Americans rush to file their taxes this weekend, it’s worth pointing out that we’ve got a tax system that doesn’t always uphold the principle of everyone doing their , this is not just about is also about ’s about being able to make the investments we need to strengthen our economy and create it’s about whether we as a country are willing to pay for those a perfect world, of course, none of us would have to pay any ’d have no deficits to pay we’d have all the resources we needed to invest in things like schools and roads and a strong military and new sources of energy – investments that have always bolstered our economy and strengthened the middle we live in the real world, with real choices and real now, we’ve got significant deficits to ’ve got serious investments to make to keep our economy we can’t afford to keep spending more money on tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans who don’t need them and didn’t even ask for Buffett is one of the wealthiest men in the he pays a lower tax rate than his ’s just the way the system is set fact, one in four millionaires pays a lower tax rate than millions of hardworking middleclass Warren points out, that’s not fair and it doesn’t make ’s wrong that middleclass Americans pay a higher share of their ine in taxes than some millionaires and week, Members of Congress are going to have a chance to set things get to vote on what we call the Buffett ’s simple: If you make more than $1 million every year, you should pay at least the same percentage of your ine in taxes as middleclass families the other hand, if you make less than $250,000 a yearlike 98 percent of American families doyour taxes shouldn’t go ’s all there is to ’s pretty Americans support this survey found that twothirds of millionaires do, do nearly half of all just need some Republican politicians to get on board with where the country know they’ll say that this is all about wanting to raise people’s probably won’t tell you that if you belong to a middleclass family, then I’ve cut your taxes each year that I’ve been in office, and I’ve cut taxes for small business owners 17 the thing is, for most Americans like me, tax rates are near their lowest point in 50 2001 and 2003, the wealthiest Americans received two huge new tax were told these tax cuts would lead to faster job , we got the slowest job growth in half a century, and the typical American family actually saw its ine the flip side, when the most welloff Americans were asked to pay a little more in the 1990s, we were warned that it would kill , tens of millions of jobs we’ve tried this trickledown experiment doesn’t middle class families have seen too much of their security erode over the past few decades for us to tell them they’re going to have to do more because the wealthiest Americans are going to do can’t stop investing in the things that will help grow our economy and create jobs – things like educatio