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Jack Reed: “Student loan rates are set to double July 1, 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, at a time when prevailing rates on 15-year…”

On the recordApril 16, 2013
Student loan rates are set to double July 1, 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, at a time when prevailing rates on 15-year mortgages are 2.8 percent.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Senator Reed highlights the impending increase in student loan rates compared to mortgage rates.

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