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The Realignment

239 | Josh Mitchell: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

The Realignment

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Following up on last week's discussion of how President Biden should approach student debt before the 2022 midterms, Josh Mitchell, author of The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe, joins The Realignment to discuss the past, present, and future of student debt in America.

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Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

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Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. We're airing an episode on Friday because

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excited. Also, because it's Friday, we're going to be sending out our

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conversation, all the good things, links to the show, stuff like that. That is

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also right below the super cast link in the show notes as well. Today's

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episode is one I've wanted to do ever since we got so much feedback during

1:10.0

Saga. My episode on student loans last week, I'm speaking with Josh Mitchell of

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the Wall Street Journal. His book is The Debt Trap. How student loans became a

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national catastrophe. During Saga in my discussion episode, we got so much

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audience feedback. I've never gotten that much on any topic. People out of

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all sorts of ideas and perspectives will be sure to include that in the

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sub-stack that's going out this morning. But we'd love to hear more from

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