Ruben Navarrette: We don't hear as much about student debt as we did a couple of years ago. But there's still very much a problem that's bubbling under the surface, and it has to do with rising tuition costs. He says defaulting on a student loan is worse than defaulting on almost any other kind of debt. The federal government can garnish your wages or take your tax refund just to get this money back.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told states to back off regulating the nine private companies that lend money to students last week. That could mean more student debt and more student defaults when both are already at record highs. Vox’s Libby Nelson tells Sean Rameswaram about the national crisis we never solved. And we say goodbye to Stephen Hawking.
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