BRANSON MO NEWS: BRANSON, Mo. – Both candidates vying for one of Missouri’s U.S. Senate seats agree free college is impossibility; however, they differ on how to take steps to tackle college affordability if elected this November.In a Missouri Press Association forum in Branson, Secretary of State Jason Kander, a Democrat, and U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., went at one another on the issues publicly for the only time in southwest Missouri before the election.Kander and Blunt disagree over the role beer and fancy dining plans may be playing in America’s more than $1 trillion student loan problem.”I personally was amazed last year when Senator Blunt said something along the lines of the reason folks are graduating with so much debt is because of their lifestyle during school, as if the extra bowl of ramen in the microwave was the reason folks in Missouri are graduating four-year institutions with an average of $26,000 in debt,” Kander said.”Ask anybody at any community college or four year school what one of the elements is that they’re most concerned about when they talk to students about the amount of money that they’re borrowing and will eventually have to pay …
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