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Elizabeth Warren: “I think it is obscene for the Federal Government to be making profits like this, measured in the billions of dollars…”

On the recordMarch 26, 2014
I think it is obscene for the Federal Government to be making profits like this, measured in the billions of dollars, off the backs of our students.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren criticizes the government's profit from student loans amidst rising debt.

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