good afternoon and welcome. i would like to thank the codirectors for planning our event today, which i know you have been looking forward to. i would also like to let to acknowledge the susan gessner for their generous support of today s program. we are grateful for all of those engagements. today, we will address a very important question is there a student debt crisis? in many of us are well aware of the ever-expanding student loan market and the latest estimates are that nearly 40 million americans are laden with $1.3 trillion worth of student debt. the borrowers is either in delinquency or default. last year s graduating class had in studentof $35,000 debt. the obama administration recently announced two policy presidential candidates have focused on a variety of alternatives of ways to lower the debt burdens. while today s seekers .peakers are two leading voices one was recently named special adviser to the u.s. department of education. he previously served as t
we want to hear your story as well. [applause] mr. president, i will start with you. you have a lot going on. this is a significant commitment. you flew down here. why this particular topic for user? it isent obama: important. it is costing lives. it is devastating communities. i want to begin by thanking congressman rogers helping to put this together and to the leadership he has shown. we very much appreciate that. [applause] unite ano thank you n organization that has been carrying this issue for a long time. paneliststhank our especially hearing the stories and very personal terms of what this means to families and communities. i m looking forward to hearing from them. this is something that has been a top priority of ours for quite some time. is to promote the safety and the health and the prosperity of the american people. that encompasses a whole range of things. .e are down leaders of isil responding to natural disasters. trying to promote a strong economy. at the sta
today, we will address a very important question is there a student debt crisis? in many of us are well aware of the ever-expanding student loan market and the latest estimates are that nearly 40 million americans are laden with $1.3 trillion worth of student ebt. one in four of the borrowers is either in delinquency or default. last year s graduating class had an average of $35,000 in student ebt. those are striking numbers. the obama administration recently announced two policy changes and presidential candidates have focused on a variety of alternatives of ways to lower the debt burdens. today s speakers are two leading voices on student debt. rohit chopra was recently named special adviser to the u.s. department of education. he previously served as the assistant director of the consumer financial protection bureau. he led that agency s work on behalf of students and young consumers. the secretary of treasury named im as the agencies first student loan ombudsman. he has
french muslims in british muslims need to more forcefully condemn terrorism, benefit from that solidarity that is created. a couple of books i have read from women, i can t think of her last name. she was part of the dutch parliament for a while. these two authors i am thinking very vividly describe what it is like for women in islamic ,ountries, general mutilation all of that, really tough to read, and i think the start of an underground group of women that are tuning into this then extrapolate to islam broadly, and i think that has not been, at least i m not aware of it being countered or if it could be countered. women the attacks against by how harshly islam in their expense treats women. i should say i am not an expert in islam abroad. cases, suchf many as saudi arabia and iran, where there is clear evidence of discrimination against women. it is also worth noting that many of the heads of state in the world are muslim women. certainly one hears of these egregious,
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