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So KGB student that relief. Good. Spending the news a lot the last couple weeks. Yep.

I'm not about you, but you know, this is like a big deal in my circle because I only recently paid

off my student loans. My wife is still paying off her his butt. Yeah, it's just been a thing that we've

been talking about a lot in my circle for the last couple years. Yeah, and you know, Jean, I was lucky.

I didn't have a whole lot of college debt because I had a partial scholarship to school and I also

did something called work studies. I had a bunch of little jobs that helped pay for my tuition.

And my parents had saved up using the credit union they belong to. But also, and this is really

important. Way back in the day when I went to college, which is way before when you went to college,

it really school costs. My school all schools cost a lot less than they do now. Yeah, and because

the cost is so bananas and the payback is even more bananas, some people have been weighing

where the college is like the right economic choice, whether it makes financial sense

to spend money on college. Like people have been talking about just how much they've been paying

for decades and just only hitting the interest, not even hitting the principal of these student

loans. So is this arbitrage among people's necks? Actually, here's Secretary of Education Miguel

Cardona talking to our colleague, Mary Louise Kelly, on all things considered recently.

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