This Student Debt Relief Program Will Cost Taxpayers at Least $39 Billion

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Asking everyone’s rich uncle to pay for school

The final commencement ceremony at Sweet Briar College, a women's liberal arts college in southwest Virgina. The school is closing this summer due to funding shortfall.

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