Sherrod Brown: “Republicans have taken aim at middle- class families with proposals to cut student loans. They want to cut student loan…”

“Republicans have taken aim at middle- class families with proposals to cut student loans. They want to cut student loan programs to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. Student loans in this country today have made it possible for 4.5 million middle-class students to go to college. These Republican cuts will mean fewer students going to college and for those students that do go to college that are now receiving student loans, it will mean higher costs to them. In my State of Ohio, the average debt per student on student loans will increase nearly $3,100. Mr. Speaker, I wear a tie today from Lorraine County Community College in northeast Ohio. In the county which I live, in Lorraine County, 67 percent of all Lorraine County Community College students are on some type of financial aid, nearly 5,000 students per quarter. At a school like Lorraine County Community College, which is an absolute jewel for Lorraine County in terms of job training and people going back to school and getting more education and people going straight from high school onto LC to go to college, Lorraine County Community College has literally thousands of part-time students, hundreds and hundreds of single parents who are students, hundreds of people from a very diverse cross section of the community.…”