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> Some 43.4 million borrowers are carrying about $1.6 trillion in outstanding student loans from the Federal Loan Portfolio, an average of more than $37,000 each, according to the Education Data Initiative.

And yet the content of a college education can be had for free on YouTube. Colleges don't sell education, they sell a credential.

Public policy has been lagging behind technological reality for decades on this one.



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