And hasanminhaj asked Congress to give borrowers the same treatment it gave banks in 2008: 'Because 44 million Americans, that is too big to fail.'
“You know the student loan crisis is bad when I’m asked to testify before Congress about it,” comedian Hasan Minhaj tweeted on Tuesday.
You know the student loan crisis is bad when I'm asked to testify before Congress about it. pic.twitter.com/TTqylZZf8k ‘We’ve put up a paywall to the middle class.’ Hasan Minhaj The satirist, who was previously a correspondent on “The Daily Show” for four years, mixed some humor in with his statistics.
“Now granted, our audience is mainly unemployed poli-sci majors, but that’s still a lot of money,” he told the congressional committee on Tuesday.
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