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On the recordJune 10, 2014
As we all know, the daunting cost of a college education can be something that for many children, and most particularly minorities and our Native American kids and our Alaska Native kids, college was just not something that they could even consider because of the costs associated.
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

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Murkowski highlights the financial barriers to college for Native American students.

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