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Student Loans: The Fund-Eating Dragon (2022)

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The First Federal Student Loan Program

The National Defense Education Act created the country's first federal student loan program. It was targeted basically just for high achieving, generally white, male, high school students. The government would approve a certain amount of money, which then they would give to the colleges themselves.

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