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    Reality Check: Higher ed and student debt

    When it comes to addressing the high cost of higher education, the difference between Clinton and Trump is much more than apples and oranges. That's according to one of our guests in part one of our reality check on issues in the presidential campaign.

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    By Warren Olney • Oct 3, 2016 • 52m Listen

    Photo: Will Folsom

    In this episode

    3 stories
    1. 1:53

      Colombian voters reject FARC peace deal

      The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos — and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon — are trying to keep alive the peace deal with FARC rebels. Colombia’s voters defeated it yesterday by a margin of less than one percent.  Nick Miroff, Latin American correspondent for the Washington Post , joins us from Bogota.

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      7 min
    2. 8:49

      How will Clinton and Trump deal with college debt?

      With the presidential campaign now focused on personalities and family histories, how is a voter to know how either candidate might actually govern? This is the first of a five-part series exploring issues that could be critical for people trying to make up their minds.

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      33 min
    3. 42:30

      What we know — and don't know — about Trump's taxes

      A leaked document suggests that Donald Trump might have avoided income taxes for 18 years.  Is that a credible claim?

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      10 min
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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Jenny Hamel

      KCRW

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      Paul von Zielbauer

      Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times

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      Evan George

      Director of Content, News

      NewsNationalPolitics

    In this episode

    3 stories
    1. 1:537 min

      Colombian voters reject FARC peace deal

    2. 8:4933 min

      How will Clinton and Trump deal with college debt?

    3. 42:3010 min

      What we know — and don't know — about Trump's taxes

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