Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Looming Student Debt Crisis Hits the Senate - Student Loan Ranger (usnews.com)

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Looming Student Debt Crisis Hits the Senate

By EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS
March 28, 2012 RSS Feed Print
On March 20, your Student Loan Ranger attended "The Looming Student Debt Crisis: Providing Fairness For Struggling Students," a Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts hearing. (You can watch a video of the hearing, and we'll give a prize to the first person who sends us a frame showing the Student Loan Ranger in the audience!)
Obviously, that is right up our alley. And the fact that Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) convened the hearing, even though he's not a member of the Subcommittee, piqued our interest, because Durbin is the sponsor of the Fairness for Struggling Students Act of 2011, which would restore the ability to discharge


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