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Transcripts for KPIX CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell 20240604 22:45:00

Fund. i told my friend, are they going to pay her student loans? joking around. speak with their gift will be enable you to repay your student loans. my jaw dropped. i was like, what? reporter: a moment suhey caught on her cell phone. [excited cheering] reporter: about 70% of college graduates oh student loans. half of those borrowers still owe $20,000 cargo decades after entering school. spigel s gift, in excess of $10 million, meant suhey could focus on her painting. i might have like had to put my dream aside and just, like, t now i am able to, you know, just do what i love. reporter: kayla had been working at mcdonald s. now she is making ceramics, selling them at art shows. with her student debt paid off, she is paying it forward, looking to teach art in lower income communities. because i see so much potential there. reporter: with that have

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