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On the recordFebruary 26, 2019
That debt can hang over their economic and personal lives for many years, meaning lower levels of home ownership and other sort of measures of economic success.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Meeks discusses the impact of student debt on home ownership and economic success.

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