Sample Media Letter
Below is a sample letter to the media. Feel free to cut and paste this text into a letter, fax or email:
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Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to suggest coverage of a very serious problem affecting thousands upon thousands of people all over the United States. As you are probably aware the cost of higher education continues to rise. By the year 2000, approximately 70% of students took out loans to pay for college and post-graduate education. Many of those students consolidated their loans after graduation, unaware that a provision of the Higher Education Act of 1965 would prevent them from ever refinancing those loans.
In the past few years, interest rates on Federal Student Loans have fallen to all time low percentages, a fact much publicized in the media, but very few media outlets mention a considerable portion of the population locked into higher interest rates with no hope of refinancing.
Congressional representatives have introduced bipartisan legislation to Congress in the past on this matter, which bills have continually been referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce's Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness, where they have all languished.
If any relief from locked-in high interest rates is to be afforded in the near future to the many student borrowers who have consolidated their loans, the general public must be made fully aware of this important issue. As a powerful conduit for communication, you have the power to inform citizens of this problem that affects so many people. Please consider covering this story.
Sincerely,
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