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Student Loan Borrowers With Disabilities Aren't Getting Help They Were Promised
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Why Student Loan Borrowers With Disabilities Aren't Getting The Help They Deserve

Hundreds of thousands of borrowers are eligible to have their student loans erased because a disability keeps them from working. NPR found many will likely never get the debt relief they're owed.

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A Sip Of Morphine: Uganda's Old-School Solution To A Shortage Of Painkillers

Ronald Mutyaba, an auto mechanic, at his home in Kampala, Uganda. Mutyaba is HIV positive and has developed Karposi sarcoma, a type of cancer that often affects people with immune deficiencies. He is holding a bottle of the liquid morphine that nurses from the nonprofit group Hospice Africa have prescribed to help control the pain caused by his illlness. Nurith Aizenman/NPR hide caption

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A Sip Of Morphine: Uganda's Old-School Solution To A Shortage Of Painkillers

A Sip Of Morphine: Uganda's Old-School Solution To A Shortage Of Painkillers

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On The Oregon Coast, Turning Pollution Into Art With A Purpose

Angela Haseltine Pozzi founded Washed Ashore in 2010. The nonprofit turns plastics taken from Oregon's beaches into eye-opening sculptures of threatened marine life. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption

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On The Oregon Coast, Turning Pollution Into Art With A Purpose

On The Oregon Coast, Turning Pollution Into Art With A Purpose

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Europe Is Burning U.S. Wood As Climate-Friendly Fuel, But Green Groups Protest

A load of wood enters a wood pellet plant operated by Enviva Partners in Sampson County, N.C. Enviva is one of the largest producers of wood pellets in the U.S. Dan Charles/NPR hide caption

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Europe Is Burning U.S. Wood As Climate-Friendly Fuel, But Green Groups Protest

Europe Is Burning U.S. Wood As Climate-Friendly Fuel, But Green Groups Protest

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