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Dick Durbin: “It just seems to me that one class with fewer than 10 percent of the students and 33 percent of the student loan…”

On the recordJune 4, 2018
It just seems to me that one class with fewer than 10 percent of the students and 33 percent of the student loan defaults really has a problem that the other types of universities and colleges do not, at least to some extent.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Durbin emphasizes the disproportionate loan default rates of for-profit colleges.

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