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NPR Interviews Hope Center’s Bryce McKibben about Loophole in Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Act

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Bryce McKibben, Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy for the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, weighed in for NPR in a feature piece about a decades-old loophole in the Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Act, which allowed couples to consolidate their student debt for a lower interest rate. Though Congress canceled the program in 2006, several borrowers remained shackled to each other even after divorce.