Billionaire pledges to pay student debt for 2019 class at historic black US college http://bit.ly/2WZHnPf Martin Pengelly and agencies Robert Smith makes pledge to eliminate students’ debt estimated at $40m at Morehouse, Martin Luther King’s alma mater Delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta, the alma mater of Martin Luther King Jr, the billionaire technology investor and philanthropist Robert F Smith made a surprise announcement: his family would wipe out the student debt of the entire class of 2019. Related: $1.5tn in debt: student loan crisis shatters a generation's American dream Continue reading... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J May 19, 2019 at 08:49PM

Robert Smith makes pledge to eliminate students’ debt estimated at $40m at Morehouse, Martin Luther King’s alma mater

Delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta, the alma mater of Martin Luther King Jr, the billionaire technology investor and philanthropist Robert F Smith made a surprise announcement: his family would wipe out the student debt of the entire class of 2019.

Related: $1.5tn in debt: student loan crisis shatters a generation's American dream

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2WZHnPf