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We’ve Let Student Loans Become a Horror Story … Now Is Time to Face It
by Paul Combe
June 3, 2013
For the past 30 years, the student debt issue has been slowly simmering. Government loans quietly edged out grants as the primary form of financial aid, while college tuitions continued their rise. All the while, we piled debt on to students without adequately preparing them to manage it.
Now, student debt has come to a boil. ...
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