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On the recordJune 2, 2015
It seems fairly recently that we had the news that student loan debt in the country broke through a trillion dollars, and now it appears to be at $1.3 trillion.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse highlights the alarming rise in student loan debt.

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