The promise that was made--by the way, a bipartisan promise in 2007--was that in exchange for working in public service, teaching, nursing, firefighting, the Army, and paying your student loans for 10 years, the rest of those student loans would be forgiven.
Weingarten outlines the original promise of student loan forgiveness for public service workers.
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