PENNSYLVANIA — This morning in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, groups of college students delivered a petition signed by over 1,000 Pennsylvanians calling on Pat Toomey to “put students above the needs of Wall Street and work to help Pennsylvanians struggling with student loan debt.”
As students across the Commonwealth graduate this spring, a vast majority of them are starting their careers just trying to catch up. In 2014, the last year for which there’s data, seventy percent of Pennsylvania college graduates carried debt averaging $33,264. That means Pennsylvania has the third highest student loan debt in the nation.
Despite all that, Pat Toomey has actively made the problem worse:
He supported a budget that could cause some student loan payments to double;
Voted three times against legislation that would help 1.2 million Pennsylvanians refinance their student loans;
And he’s opposed a lower cap on student loan interest rates.
Senator Toomey owes his constituents struggling with crushing debt answers about his record of sticking up for the big banks that fund his campaigns, not the young Pennsylvanians he was elected to represent.
Check out the highlights from the petition deliveries in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh:
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