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The Staggering Weight Of Student Loan Debt

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Jim Clyburn  (D-SC) have introduced legislation to cancel student loan debt for millions of Americans.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) have introduced legislation to cancel student loan debt for millions of Americans.

according to a 2018 analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

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Student debt and what to do about it has already become a 2020 campaign issue. , saying that the problem has reached a “crisis” level.

It wasn’t always this way. .

How did students start having to borrow so much to pay for college? Who can address the student debt crisis?

Produced by Paige Osburn.

GUESTS

Tressie McMillan Cottom, Author, “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges In The New Economy” and “Thick: And Other Essays”; assistant professor of Sociology, Virginia Commonwealth University;

Paul Tough, Author, “The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us”;

Michelle Singletary, Syndicated columnist of “The Color of Money” for The Washington Post;

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