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	<title><![CDATA[Student Loans: A Step In the Right Direction]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lauren-wolfe/student-loans-a-step-in-t_b_110408.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Thanks to the Democratic Congress, today the interest rates for federal student loans will decrease 0.8 percent.</p>

<p>What does this mean in the real lives of students? Though President Bush has no problem spending billions in Iraq, American students can barely scrape enough money together to go to college. With college costs having skyrocketed in recent years, the average college student now graduates with $21,600.* That's not the best way to send America's best and brightest into the world. Luckily, decreasing...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-07-10T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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