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Elizabeth Warren: the break-even interest rate on student loans... would be about 2.5 percent.

On the recordMarch 26, 2014
the break-even interest rate on student loans... would be about 2.5 percent.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren discusses the interest rate needed for the federal student loan program to break even.

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