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More Debt, Fewer Jobs: Candidates' Plan for College Costs

Clip: 10/18/2012 | 11m 34s

More Debt, Fewer Jobs: How the Candidates Plan to Solve Rising Costs of College

Student debt is outpacing credit card debt. With unemployment high for young people, 10 percent of recent graduates have defaulted on loans. Judy Woodruff talks American Council on Education's Terry Hartle and Cato Institute's Neal McCluskey about what President Obama and Mitt Romney propose as solutions.

10/18/2012

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