Thomas Knapp: The student loan crisis is not an emergency

"The student loan crisis," Sabrina Cereceres writes at The Nation, "is a national emergency, and the time to act is now." Cereceres makes a good case that the student debt situation in the United States is indeed a crisis. "Crisis" is defined in the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary as the decisive moment or turning point in a matter.

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