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Elizabeth Warren urges expanded student loan debt relief amid 'crisis' in Fall River

FALL RIVER — Sen. Elizabeth Warren told a crowd of educators that, in her day, she was able to get a college education for $50 a semester.

 

“You could pay for college on a part-time job and not have to take on debt,” Warren said.  

 

The American Federation of Teachers and the Student Borrower Protection Center hosted a debt relief clinic on Tuesday at Kuss Middle School, where Warren promoted relief from burdensome college loans by using programs promoted by the Biden-Harris administration.  

 

“The shift from my life to yours has been, to get the education that you need to do the work that needs to be done, people are taking on mountains of debt,” Warren said. “And ultimately those mountains fall over on them and they’re getting crushed.”

 

Read more from Dan Medeiros at heraldnews.com.

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