When President Barack Obama gave what is expected to be his final State of the Union address Tuesday evening, Sean McAllister, a 20-year-old finance major at Syracuse University, had a front-row seat to see history being made.
Which might prompt some cynics to question whether Democrats have a realistic shot at actually accomplishing anything on the student loan front this year, given that Republicans control both the House and Senate
So did Tina Reyes, a 21-year-old Michigan State University political science major, and University of Massachusetts senior Alexis Ploss, a math major. Howard University psychology major Sable Givens was there, and so was Britney Woods, a University of Wisconsin communications major. Continue reading “Student loan debt a ticket to Obamas State of the Union address”