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On the recordJanuary 13, 2022
Sixty-three percent of borrowers who made payments with Navient during the COVID forbearance still owe more now than they originally borrowed. We, as a country, are profiting off of insurmountable and crushing educational debt. And it is wrong.
Said by
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York
Source
msnbc.com

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Ocasio-Cortez discusses the impact of student loan debt on borrowers and criticizes the system that profits from it.

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