Twenty higher education organizations have come out in opposition to an Obama Administration proposal to condition education tax credits on community service. 

While the groups have supported both additional aid and tax credits for higher education and efforts to increase community service, they argue that linking the two will create more harm than good.  Specifically, they argue that it would be hard for low-income and older students to complete community service in addition to work and family commitments, that schools don’t have an infrastructure to administer such a program and that it would advantage wealthy students that aren’t dependent on tax credits.

The departments of Education and Treasury are currently studying the idea which Obama first proposed during his campaign.

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