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thanks, ronan. this week s call to action we want you at home to join representative shock and gabbert in marking giving tuesday. all of us at msnbc are in on this, too. just write down what you re giving on a piece of paper and take a selfie with it. with you share it on social media use the #givingtuesday. hit us on instagram or twitter @ronandaily. d.c. lucky dog rescue. dean tweeted a selfie to say he donated to his son s school because it changed his life. and brian tweeted, i gave to my local council. please consider doing the same. a lot of interesting personal stories coming out there. we ll watch them all week. later in the week we ll put them together and take a look at the scope of what you ve gotten done. we re a sponsor of giving tuesday and we re proud to be involved in that. drum roll, please. it s also the time for our hash tag battle results. a big contention question. we asked, do you think ray rice deserves that second chance to ....
Us @ronandaily. where is the debt the worst? we re looking at a lot of potential areas. in minnesota and pennsylvania, 70% of students have debt and delaware has the actual highest average debt per student at over $33,000. remember, throughout the week we ll be bringing you not just different facets of this problem but also different potential solutions to the challenges you re telling us about. so on that note, joining us today from washington is alexis goldstein. she s a former wall street worker turned wall street occupier who is now an activist with strike debt. one of the largest groups focused on this problem. thank you for joining us. ronan, thank you for having me. alexis, a pilot program that is a national piece of legislation would allow students at state colleges to avoid state tuition by allowing a smaller percentage of future income, do ....
Loans. it s certainly, begin, a step in the right direction. this is a by-product of the 2010 law. this does not affect the private student debt market. this is only for federal loans. it also allows you to have your loans forgiven after 20 years if you make timely payments. that s another issue with this. a lot of times like sally mae and other organizations may miss payments you ve made. they re setting aside $70 million, sally mae, because they re being investigated for wrongly processing payments. step in the right direction, but we need to go further. all right. we ll be coming back throughout the rest of the week for other potential solutions and some expert takes on whether they ll work. thank you for joining us, alexis. appreciate your work. thanks for having me. please keep the responses coming. you can tweet them t to @ronandaily or send them to ronan farrow@msnbc.com. ....
I m excited to see the response. thank you, professor reich. we appreciate your time. thanks, ronan. good luck with your new show. thank you. take a picture and tweet it to us @ronandaily. starting right now. before we go, let s check in for the last time on today s battle of the day. remember, we asked who has been stronger on ukraine. you weighed in. and the winner is rfd obama inching ahead with 56% of the vote. all right. thank you guys for your passionate responses on that. and that wraps it up for my very first show. we made it. i look forward to spending this hour with you every day on msnbc. don t go away yet. ....