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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Solving the Student Loan Nightmare

    More than 20 million students are expected to fill out FAFSA -- the Free Application for Federal Student Aid -- this year: 108 questions spread over 10 pages. And 72 pages of instructions. Now two U.S. senators have proposed reducing the form to the length of a postcard with just two questions.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jun 19, 2014 • 1 min read

    More than 20 million students are expected to fill out FAFSA -- the Free Application for Federal Student Aid -- this year: 108 questions spread over 10 pages. And 72 pages of instructions. Now two U.S. senators have proposed reducing the form to the length of a postcard with just two questions.

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    Dov Gets Booted, Obama Updates Iraq Plan, and Animals Go Mad
    1. 0:00Obama’s Iraq Plan
    2. 7:57Dov Charney Out at American Apparel
    3. 18:14Solving the Student Loan NightmareYou’re reading this
    4. 27:08Animal Madness
    5. 42:29Changes at CA Supreme Court
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Andrew Walsh

      Too Beautiful to Live

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Emily T. Green

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    The full episode

    3 of 5
    Dov Gets Booted, Obama Updates Iraq Plan, and Animals Go Mad
    1. 0:00Obama’s Iraq Plan
    2. 7:57Dov Charney Out at American Apparel
    3. 18:14Solving the Student Loan NightmareYou’re reading this
    4. 27:08Animal Madness
    5. 42:29Changes at CA Supreme Court
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