John Burbank

Economic Opportunity Institute

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Executive Director of the Economic Opportunity Institute, a liberal think tank in Seattle that devised the Pay It Forward plan

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Student borrowers now owe the federal government more than a trillion dollars, and college tuition is on the rise.

Oregon and the Cost of Higher Education: 'Pay It Forward'

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