Eric Swalwell: “You know what was interesting? We have had these conversations with people. A story I will never forget: We were in the…”

“You know what was interesting? We have had these conversations with people. A story I will never forget: We were in the Boston area, and we went to Thermo Fisher. We had this town hall with about 200 young people at their workforce, talking to us about student loan debt. I was with Congressman Moulton. Once we started getting into the back-and-forth of the questions with the participants, a woman in the back who was around 55, 60 years old raised her hand and said kind of jokingly, ``You know, I know I am not supposed to be here. This is a millennial town hall.'' And we told her, ``No. No. It is a mindset. It is not an age.'' But she said, ``I think you are missing the fact that student loan debt doesn't just affect millennials,'' and she told a story about her daughter who had gone to college, which is also a part of that American Dream where we want our young people to go to college, educate themselves. But she said that she has found that her daughter has come home from college, has over $30,000 in student loan debt and, because of that debt, is not able to even rent near where she works. So what her daughter has done is she has come back home. We are becoming the boomerang generation. So that reinforced for me that this issue affects the 40 million millennials that you talked about. But, actually, it is a family matter. It affects everyone in the household. Have you heard stories like that or seen examples of that?”