
Angela Powell married her college sweetheart — but since her divorce in 2014, the relationship has been tenuous. So when she learned Congress was about to make it possible for her to separate her student loans from his, after years of carrying his debt as well as her own, she couldn't contain her excitement.
"This is almost unbelievable," Powell says. "It's going to change lives, and it's going to change people's outlook on hope, and especially mine."