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With the pause on federal student loan payments set to expire at the end of August, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Ayanna Pressley and advocates in Massachusetts.
Debt forgiveness? How Mass. leaders feel about the student loan burden Bob Dumas, Boston 25 News
Paying back student loans is a huge burden for many Massachusetts families.
Nine-hundred-thousand Massachusetts residents are on the hook for $29 billion, according to www.educationdata.org.
Emy Takinami considers herself lucky. She owes about $20,000 which is below the national average in the mid-30s.
As a first-generation college student, she had to take out loans to go from Brookline High School to the University of Vermont and then Boston University for graduate school.
She obtained degrees she needs to move ahead but is now worried that all this debt might hold her back.