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On the recordJune 11, 2019
Thank you. And thank you again everybody for being here today. And as a 30-year-old who is also still paying off student loans myself, first generation college grad, I grew up in rural Iowa, so much of what has been said today I hear it and I get it and it is still personal to me and a lot of my friends back in Iowa as well who I have seen move away because they could not afford the opportunity to come back home and have the jobs that pay well enough then to pay off the student loans that they are also sitting with because, you know, again, they were in different situations where like myself, my parents could not pay for college and so, you know, we are struggling.

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Finkenauer shares her personal experience with student loans and the struggles faced by her peers.

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