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Student loan interest rates aren’t the problem

Posted on July 8th, 2013

"Manifestly Congress has failed our students. But the real failure here is the pretense that federal loans are making college more affordable." -- NY Post

This commentary from the NY Post sums up the real way Congress has failed students perfectly. The problem is not just that Congress has hurt students by failing to keep student loan interest rates from doubling to 6.8%. It’s that they have done nothing to prevent college costs from skyrocketing. The real problem: college affordability […]

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