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The History of Student Loans in the United States

Peoples & Things

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Is Direct Investment in Making Higher Education More Affordable?

CNN's John Sutter looks at what might have happened if the U.S. had taken a different road. He says states like California made direct investment to make higher education more affordable. The dream was to make work study as permanent as Social Security was, he says. But conservatives in Congress fought so friggin' hard to keep that from happening.

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