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    9 days ago

    “This settlement is pure capitulation–it goes much further than the suit or the 8th Circuit order requires,” Yu wrote in a statement to ABC News. “The real story here is the unrelenting, right-wing push to jack up costs on working people with student debt.”

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      Don’t forget the Department of Education is ALSO trying to find ways to shift these loans to big private corporations, in what is surely not an attempt to create and then short securities backed by student loans, which will obviously not have any effects on the economy.