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Financial Aid in the News

Opinion: Obama Gets It On Student Aid (The Capital Times)

"Clinton's plan includes the following: 'Capping monthly payments on financial aid loans made after graduation.' The issue is not capping payments; the issue is capping the amount of interest one has to pay," according to a Capital Times letter to the editor. "I am a 50-year-old single parent who received my college degree in business in 2003. I will be paying off my $25,000 loan until I die! It's ridiculous. This is a racket! Why should paying off a student loan cost the student so much? The middle-class Americans get it! That is why we are voting for Obama!"

You can read the complete May 9, 2008 Capital Times article on-line.

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