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Dick Durbin: “Public colleges----get some public support, though in most States it is diminishing at this point.”

On the recordJune 11, 2013
Public colleges----get some public support, though in most States it is diminishing at this point.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Senator Durbin notes the declining state support for public colleges.

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