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How nonprofits won special treatment in student lending bill

This is the first in a series of articles on student lending reported in partnership with the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University. When President Obama unveiled a plan in February to overhaul the student loan industry, nonprofit lenders in dozens of states feared their business was doomed. But now those nonprofits — […]

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