He claims that more federal aid leads to higher tuition, so he offers no new federal funding to help students burdened with debt.
They can be blue-collar workers, shopkeepers, or students burdened by debt; they can be the poor or the middle class.
Abu Dhabi has freed itself of N.Y.U.'s inheritance: the lumbering bureaucracy, the stratified faculty, the overpacked classes, and the students burdened by debt.
At a recent screening of the film "Race to Nowhere," I was reminded of the enormous pressures on students burdened with hours of homework after a full day of classes.
Speaking later at a boisterous rally, Mr. Obama said Mr. Romney's vision had no room for struggling middle-class families, the elderly, students burdened by college loans or veterans returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, former students burdened with federal student loans either have to repay their debts or face the devastating consequences of a default.
I will be a fighter for our children who deserve a world-class education, and for students burdened by predatory lenders and skyrocketing tuition.
The Education Department's limited actions "may leave hundreds of thousands of students burdened with debts foisted on them by deceptive and abusive practices," AFR said.
An overweight, underachieving-student burdened with doubt, Vance, who knew little of the outside world, enlisted in the Marines and served in Iraq after high school, escaping the fate of family and friends.
The federal Education Department is expected to complete at year-end its own study of students' debt burden.
