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With an outstanding federal student loan debt of $29,000 and a monthly bill of $430, Shpati joins the millions of Americans who have student debt but no degree. "I am a first-generation Albanian ...
Student loan debt is a national crisis that affects millions of Americans. Though the Department of Education has led efforts to tackle this issue in recent years, rising education costs make it ...
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Over half of American college graduates are graduating with some student loan debt, with borrowers owing a total of $1.48 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve. For many of these borrowers ...
The trend of heavy debt burdens threatens to limit access to higher education, particularly for low-income and first-generation students, who tend to carry the heaviest debt burden. Federal student aid policy has steadily put resources into student loan programs rather than need-based grants, a trend that straps future generations with high ...
American student loan debt is sky-high, with some estimates putting the total number over $2.19 trillion—that’s higher than all U.S. credit card and auto loan debt combined.
Student loans totaled more than $1.3 trillion, averaging $25,000 each for 40 million debtors. The debtors average age was 33. Forty percent of the debt was owed by people 40 or older. [37] In a 2017 report by the National Center for Education Statistics, the researchers found that 27% of all student loans resulted in default within 12 years. [33]
The student loan debt crisis arose after legislative changes over the years that create a system of largely unchecked lending to millions of students, according to a reporter and author of a new book.