密歇根新闻广播 减轻学生贷款偿还压力的新提案

Struggling to repay student loans is something that unites many of us. Across the country, almost 40 million people are trying to repay $1.3 trillion in student loan debt.

Here in Michigan, 1.5 million people are trying to erase¹ more than $39 billion in debt.

Earlier today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Michigan, was on the campus of the University of Michigan, where she hosted a roundtable on college affordability².

Dingell is one of the sponsors of a bill in the House called the "Bank on Students Emergency Loan Reinforcement Act."

The bill would allow students to refinance their current student loan debt.

"You can refinance your home loan, you can refinance your auto³ loan, but you can't refinance your student loan right now," says Dingell.

According to Dingell, the average student loan debt for an undergraduate student is $30,000. This new bill would save them $4,000.

But this is only one small part of a larger problem.

In her talks with students, Dingell says they have given her many other ideas, including teaching financial literacy in high school.

"Many of them get these loans and don't understand what the loans or their grants are there to cover," she says.

With so many suffering from student loan debt, Dingell says she thinks this isn't a partisan⁴ issue and hopes that her fellow members of Congress will support it. Elizabeth Warren introduced the bill previously⁵, but it never passed through the Senate.

"I'm hoping that we can get something like this through the House and the Senate. I'm going to work very hard to try to do that," Dingell says.

1 erase   

v.擦掉；消除某事物的痕迹

参考例句：

• He tried to erase the idea from his mind.他试图从头脑中抹掉这个想法。
• Please erase my name from the list.请把我的名字从名单上擦去。

2 affordability   

可购性

参考例句：

• Performance-Based Logistics Affordability: Can We Afford Categorical Conversion to Performance-Based Acquisition? 基于性能的后期的可承受性：能否担负得起向基于性能的采办的无条件的转变？
• There would be no crisis of affordability, as't for food or clothing. 就想食物与服装一样，因为供给没有危机。

3 auto   

n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车

参考例句：

• Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
• The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。

4 partisan   

adj.党派性的；游击队的；n.游击队员；党徒

参考例句：

• In their anger they forget all the partisan quarrels.愤怒之中，他们忘掉一切党派之争。
• The numerous newly created partisan detachments began working slowly towards that region.许多新建的游击队都开始慢慢地向那里移动。

5 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。