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Would combining the Education and Labor Departments help or hurt students?

First-year law student Christopher Healy studies in Doe Library at the University of California at Berkeley in Berkeley, California May 12, 2014.    REUTERS/Noah Berger  (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION) - GF2EA5D0QYS01

Fellow Elizabeth Mann Levesque discusses the proposed merger between the Department of Education and the Department of Labor, including how likely it is that this restructure will occur, what changes the plan proposes, and what the consequences would be.

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