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Student loan debt is crushing Americans – 4 essential reads

  • Written by Jamaal Abdul-Alim, Education Editor, The Conversation
Student loan debt is crushing Americans – 4 essential readsCurrently, the total outstanding federal student loan debt is $1.7 trillion. Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

US$1.7 trillion. That’s how much college students and graduates owed in federal student loan debt as of July 2021.

The rising amount of student loan debt can pose serious challenges for individual borrowers. For that...

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