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On the recordAugust 8, 2026
What you don’t know is that although only eight percent of [American college students] go to for-profit colleges and universities, 30 percent of all student loan defaults are the students from these same schools.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Discussing student loan defaults related to for-profit colleges.

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