Welch Speaking Out About Student Loan Debt

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more than a trillion dollars, student loan debt in the U.S. now surpasses credit card debt. College tuition is
rising steadily, every year. And the interest rates on Stafford Loans, the most
common form of federal student loans, are set to double this summer, from 3.4
percent to 6.8 percent unless Congress can agree on how to keep them low. We
talk to Representative Peter Welch, who has been speaking out about what he says
is the necessity of keeping interest rates from doubling, about the issues of
student loan debt and college affordability. Welch has also been gathering
stories from people about their experiences with student loans and higher
education.

Several cases around Vermont have made it clear how difficult it
can be to get public opinion to coalesce in favor of an industrial wind
project. But the controversy is made even more complicated when the site’s
neighbors are not just the next town over, but another country. The proposed wind project in Derby Line, Vermont has met with opposition
both within the town and from their neighbors in Stanstead, Quebec. Laura Carpenter, a reporter with the Newport Daily Express, has been following this story and has the details.

 

 

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