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Dick Durbin: “Nine percent of students graduating from high school go to for-profit colleges and universities--9 percent. Yet 35…”

On the recordJune 5, 2017
Nine percent of students graduating from high school go to for-profit colleges and universities--9 percent. Yet 35 percent of all student loan defaults are from students from for-profit colleges and universities.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Highlighting the disproportionate loan defaults from for-profit college students.

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