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College grads must pay back their loans: Higher education expert says student debt boycott makes no sense

New York Daily News

December 8, 2011

While the Occupy Wall Street protesters are mad about many things, student debt stands out. And rightly so - when reckless banks destroy the economy, the government bails them out. But when college graduates can't pay their students loans back to banks because there are no jobs, due to banks destroying the economy, they're out of luck.

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