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Colorado Liberal

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2. It's not just private colleges and universities that overcharge
Tue Aug 23, 2022, 08:41 PM
Aug 2022

At least in some states, so do public universities. My daughter went to a state university in Colorado, as an in-state resident, and between her loans and my Parent PLUS loans, it's over $90K in debt. She's working on her PhD in engineering now (and ironically, has a scholarship that pays 100% of the expenses for her graduate work). I know I won't get any relief from what is being proposed, and I am fine with that, but I really hope that part of the solution (in addition to student loan forgiveness) is reforming the federal student loan program (in my opinion, 7 1/2% for a student loan is absurd) and bringing down the costs to attend public colleges and universities.

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