“Outstanding student loan debt at the end of last year was $1.5 trillion. Education debt ranks second in consumer debt nationwide behind mortgages. Parents will sentence themselves and their children to decades of debt because they believe attending a select school is a must for their children to succeed.” Read more from Michelle Singletary. It’s from The Washington Post.
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