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.@ewarren dared bring up her “$50 a semester” education in her closing statement.

One-time $400k Harvard prof Elizabeth Warren builds support through ‘student debt crisis’ eagnews.org/one-time-400k-…

Warren’s suggestion is to reduce the interest rate on student loans, and she introduced a bill about a year ago to do just that.

But what Warren and her supporters don’t discuss is the absurdly high salaries for college professors, and she’s been among the top earners, according to Associated Press reports.

“ … Elizabeth Warren was paid $429,981 as a Harvard law professor from 2010 to 2011,” the AP reported in 2012, and “got nearly $134,000 in consulting fees on legal cases in 2010.”

Those earnings were on top of investments, book deals, and other income that places Warren squarely in the vilified One Percent.

That makes her comments to WBZ NewsRadio 1030 seem all the more hypocritical.

“This is about the kids who weren’t born into the families where mom and dad could just write a check out of petty cash,” Warren told the radio station, according to CBS Boston.

Warren complains that many of those students are saddled with unbearable debt upon graduation, and it’s not fair.

“For me this is very personal,” she said. “I graduated from a commuter college that cost $50 per semester.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that tuition has increased by 559 percent in the last 30 years, but what Warren and others don’t seem willing to discuss is how their overblown salaries as professors are contributing to the problem.