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On Dec. 26, in the commentary titled Bankruptcy is the solution to the student loan crisis (Opinion Exchange), Joe Nocera observed that especially among conservatives . [allowing loan forgiveness] wouldn t be fair to the millions of Americans who did pay off their student loans, often after years of financial struggle, they argue. Granted, there is a certain unfairness. But one way to not correct an evil is to create another one. The priority is for the federal government to provide former students burdened with impossible debt debt encouraged by the federal government with help from that same government.
Nearly 700 soldiers are headed to the Middle East in one of the largest single deployments for the Minnesota National Guard since the second Iraq war began.