Elizabeth Warren's big ideas — along with others the 2020 Democratic candidate has announced — come with an equally big price tag: More than $30 trillion over 10 years
If she's elected president, the Massachusetts senator would provide free health care for everyone. She would wipe out student loan debt for tens of millions of people and give free child care to millions of kids. She would increase Social Security benefits by $200 a month and invest heavily in clean energy technology.These big ideas -- along with others the 2020 Democratic candidate has announced -- come with an equally big price tag: More than $30 trillion over 10 years.
But others, including Social Security, unemployment insurance and federal agricultural subsidies, still exist.Roughly three decades after the New Deal, President Lyndon B. Johnson spearheaded the Great Society, which wove the government even deeper into the nation's social fabric. It created Medicare and Medicaid, as well as Head Start and other anti-poverty, environmental and consumer protection initiatives.
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