Zach Madden and Phoenix Rice-Johnson

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Letter to the Editor: Burke to fight for student loan debt

Wisconsin is in a student debt crisis. Today, more than 750,000 Wisconsin citizens hold federal student loan debt, with thousands more facing massive amounts of debt from private lenders. The average student is graduating with $22,400 in student loans, paying nearly $400 a month for almost nineteen years. They’re saddled with mountains of debt before they even walk across the commencement stage.