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A new report ranks the Granite State at the top of the list for saddling our college students with the highest level of student debt in the nation. We’ll ask why, and look at what other states are doing to help their students manage- and minimize their debt load. Richard Ager hosts. His guests are Tara Payne, Director of the New Hampshire Higher Education Assistance Foundation (NHHEAF) Center for College Planning and Robert Shireman, Founder and Executive Director of the The Institute for College Access and Success. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley ’s Center for Studies in Higher Education and serves as a congressional appointee to the Federal Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance. Robert's group released the study (pdf) under The Project on Student Debt, which is part of the T-I-C-A-S. We'll also hear from Lou D'Allesandro, State Senator from Manchester who is Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and also Chairman of the New England Board of Higher Education.