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people have to turn to student loans to help finance their education. in just a few moments you will hear from britney jones. she s going to be talking about how taking out student loans made it possible for her to get a college degree and britney i d look forward to hearing more about your experiences. you were to start a teaching career and the same time paying down the student loan the but later college. of course britney is not alone. dealing with overbearing student debt is becoming a reality for growing number of americans. statistics are staggering. today the average college graduate will have to pay back around $30,000 in student loans and a record number of young households owe student debt. back in 1989, 16% of young households have student debt. by 2010 that figure had more than doubled according to the pew research center. more young people than ever before are dealing with more student debt than ever before and that can have lasting consequences. americans ....
and let us know what you think about the programs you re watching. call us at 202-626-3400. or e-mail us at [email protected]. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. the senate budget committee held a hearing recently on student loan debt which, according to the consumer financial protection bureau, is over $1 trillion. lawmakers examined the impact of student loans on borrowers, career choice and the larger economy. witnesses included the consumer financial protection bureau s student ombudsman, a recent graduate and economic scholar richard vedder. this is about 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] this hearing will come to order. i want to thank senate johnson senator johnson who is filling in today for my ranking member, senator sessions, welcome to you and all of our colleagues who are joining us today as well as a room full. welcome to all of you on a really important topic today. we are going to be talking about a chal ....
mesherment that shows that in a more compelling way. each has a security plan, right? yes. has homeland security done an analysis of what the total cost would be to bring it up how much total for all of the tier one ports would we need to spend to bring them where they need to be. do we have that? do we know that? i m not aware of that analysis. that s an important question because if you don t know what they need, i know you know where the weaknesses are. if the total bill for bringing our tier one ports is $2.5 billion, we re 12.5 years from bringing that. by that time you ll have replacement needs so the question is don t we think it s important to know and here s the total cost to get us where we want you. which one of those top eight ports, which one has the greatest vulnerability and should we not be spending maybe $70 million at one port and $30 million at the other eight on the basis what the total need to to get them to the level where we feel confi ....
mr. president, mr. prime minister, madam mayor, heads of states, and government, past and present, including the man wo jumped that ship beyond a reasonable doubt wall to lead a strike that became a movement the prisoner turned president who transformed this nation thank you for your outstanding eadership. distinguished guests, people of poland, thank you for your extraordinary welcome and for the privilege of joining you here today. i bring with me the greetings and friendship of the american people. and of my hometown of chicago, home to so many proud polish americans. in chicago we think of ourselves as a little piece of poland. in some neighborhoods you only hear polish. the faithful come together at hurches. we have a parade for polish constitution day. and every summer we celebrate the tastes and we re all a little bit polish for that day. so being here with you it feels like home. now, 25 years ago today we witnessed a scene that at once seemed impossible. an e ....
george zimmerman verdict. send us a tweet, if you go to twitter.com/cspanwj. we want to get your thoughts on the implications of the zimmerman verdict. here is what president obama had to say in a statement he put out yesterday on the zimmerman verdict. he said the new york times editorial weighs in this morning what are your thoughts on this? stand your ground law, should they be debated and revised? , where the verdict took place, this is the miami herald. larry in hernando, mississippi, a democratic caller, you are first up. people like him are judge, jury, and executioner. , do youder these laws think that gives people like george zimmerman the power of judge and jury? and and exited executioner. that law should be repealed. he killed that boy. there is no doubt about that. it is just a crying shame. a kid going to the store should not die like that. host: jonah from the nashville, tennessee. this law is a recipe for civilians who are not trained in law ....