Ed Markey has stood for the people and for the future. Heroic stands are needed to oppose vested interests and support sensible policies.
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Like many of your family and friends, I paid for college with student loans. I'm happy to have done it (well, maybe not happy), because it was an investment in my future, and would allow me to give even more back to society.
So it really pissed me off to learn that Congress is set to double the cost of student loans from 3.4% to 6.8% --while offering huge corporate banks the low rate of 0.75%.
You read that right. Congress punishing young men and women looking to start their careers and families, while offering the biggest banks a 900% discount.
Here's what Sen. Elizabeth Warren had to say about that:
"As a country, every time we
advance money to the big banks at low interest rates, we invest in those banks.
We should be making at least that same kind of investment in our students."
She's right -- and she just introduced her first bill to the Senate to fix this absurdity.
Back up Sen. Elizabeth Warren -- become a citizen co-sponsor of her bill to give students the same ultra-low interest rates as big banks.
We elected Sen. Warren because this is exactly the sort of progressive leadership we need -- standing up to Wall Street, giving a voice to the middle class, and pushing the sort of common sense solutions that we need to get the country back on track.
She's doing her part. Now, she needs our help to make her first bill become law.
Become a citizen co-sponsor of Sen. Warren's bill right now.
Thank you for everything you do.
- Arshad
Arshad Hasan, Executive Director
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