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Suggested Media: Will loan forgiveness offer long-term student debt solution? (PBS News Hour)

   GWEN IFILL: Americans are now carrying student loan debt of over $1 trillion, $125 billion of it added just in the first three months of this year...So what, if anything, could this approach do to help ease the growing problem of student loan debt?For that, we turn to Deanne Loonin, who leads the student borrower program at the National Consumer Law Center. And Richard Vedder, professor of economics at Ohio University and director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.

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