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Mark Takano: “I did actually take on some more debt to get my master's degree before I came here. Two years before I came to Congress…”

On the recordJune 25, 2013
I did actually take on some more debt to get my master's degree before I came here. Two years before I came to Congress I completed my master's degree, and it was a 2-year master's program. Because of my income as a teacher, many years as a teacher in, but I came close to $40,000 worth of debt that I'm paying off to the Federal Treasury. But it's not the Stafford loan that subsidized it. But I have a sense of just--that's part of my horror of the amount of debt load that students are carrying.
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Mark Takano
Democratic · California
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Jun 25, 2013

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