South Dakota candidates split on how to pay for college
A federal loan program that's helped thousands of lower- and middle-class South Dakotans pay for college will go away next year if Congress doesn't act.
That means whoever voters send to Washington next year will have a say in the future of financial aid.
The need-based Federal Perkins Loan Program helped more than 3,100 South Dakotans pay for college in 2014-15, with an average of $1,843 per student.
All four of South Dakota's congressional candidates — Sen. John Thune, Rep. Kristi Noem, and their Democratic challengers Jay Williams and Paula Hawks — want to renew the federal loan program in some form, but their views on how government should help students pay for college vary from there.
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