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On the recordApril 29, 2002
39 percent of college students now graduate with debt loads that are termed unmanageable, meaning their monthly payments are more than 8 percent of their monthly incomes. With this Bush administration change putting more debt on these students, it becomes impossible for them to deal with this.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Discussing the impact of student debt on college graduates.

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