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Dick Durbin: “They are charging too much and they are providing too little. They are misleading these students into debt and…”

On the recordJune 4, 2018
They are charging too much and they are providing too little. They are misleading these students into debt and enrollment and then casting them off.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Durbin criticizes for-profit colleges for high costs and inadequate education.

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