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Gregory Meeks: The rapidly increasing growth of student debt is indeed a national crisis, and it is not something that we should be…

On the recordSeptember 9, 2019
The rapidly increasing growth of student debt is indeed a national crisis, and it is not something that we should be playing politics with at all.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Meeks calls for urgent action on the student debt crisis without political interference.

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