Student debt

A punishing system of applying for college debt is undermining the middle class.

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Student loans aren’t just a young person’s problem. At the end of 2020, borrowers age 50 or older held about 22% of the nation’s $1.6 trillion student debt burden, the AARP reports. Most of the debt held by 50-plus borrowers is the result of the borrower’s education. But many people have student loans because they...

The Long Road to the Student Debt Crisis - WSJ

If you're a teacher, you have one of the lowest-paid professional jobs in the U.S. Most require a four-year degree, which can require tens of thousands of dollars in loans that some struggle to repay.

Hundreds of institutions produce graduate students who owe more on their loans five years after entering repayment than they initially borrowed.

How universities, banks and the government turned student debt into America's next financial black hole By Matt Taibbi November 3, 2017 On a wind-swept, frigid night in February 2009, a 37-year-old schoolteacher named Scott Nailor parked his rusted '92 Toyota Tercel in the parking lot of a Fireside Inn in Auburn, Maine. He picked this spot to have a final reckoning with himself. He was going to end his life.

Students' loans have been forgiven – now, how to balance paying off student loan debt with other financial goals.