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Senate Republicans introduce plan to tackle student loan debt (thehill.com)

submitted 1 year ago by mjgood91@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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The GOP package, called the “Lowering Education Costs and Debt Act,” consists of five bills that the senators say will address the root causes of the student debt issue such as the increasing price of college and students taking out loans they can’t afford.

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[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

root causes

Oh, great! So it's going to restore all that state funding that universities used to get? The funding that student loans were used to make up after it was cut?

No?

Oh well.