Billionaire commencement speaker to pay off student loans of entire class

Published May 19, 2019 7:50pm ET



Billionaire Robert F. Smith surprised graduating seniors at Morehouse College on Sunday by announcing he would pay off all their student debt.

“This is my class,” he said, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “and I know my class will pay this forward.”

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