PRO: Taxpayers shouldn’t get stuck with a $1.5 trillion loan default tab

As the noted financial scholar Alex J. Pollock, former president and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, suggests: Make the schools pay 20% of the debt obligations of former students facing loan delinquency or default.

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