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Dick Durbin: “If you are seeing a school claiming 96 percent job placement and they have got a 40 percent federal student loan default…”

On the recordMarch 19, 2012
If you are seeing a school claiming 96 percent job placement and they have got a 40 percent federal student loan default rate, something is wrong.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Durbin highlights discrepancies in job placement claims versus loan default rates.

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