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Student loan debt in the U.S. is $1.747 trillion. What do we do?

Nearly 40% of student loan payers are helping someone else pay off their student loans, a new study found.
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Student loan debt in the U.S. is staggering at $1.747 trillion. So what do we do? Forgive and forget? That’s the subject of this edition of The Long View with analyst Neal Milner.

This interview aired on The Conversation on April 27, 2022. The Conversation airs weekdays at 11 a.m. on HPR-1.

Catherine Cruz is the host of The Conversation. Originally from Guam, she spent more than 30 years at KITV, covering beats from government to education. Contact her at ccruz@hawaiipublicradio.org.
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