Eager to energize young voters, President Barack Obama is depicting Republicans as obstacles to an affordable college education as he previews an argument he will make on university campuses in states crucial to his re-election, the Associated Press reports. “This is a question of values,” Obama said in his weekly radio and internet address Saturday. “We cannot let America become a country where a shrinking number of people do really well while a growing number of people struggle to get by.” Obama wants Congress to extend a law that cut interest rates on a popular federal loan program for low- and middle-income undergraduates. If the law expires, the rates will double on July 1, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent…
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