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Sunday, September 9, 2018
The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined - Ben Miller, NY Times
Consider the official statistics: Of borrowers who started repaying in 2012, just over 10 percent had defaulted three years later. That’s not too bad — but it’s not the whole story. Federal data never before released shows that the default rate continued climbing to 16 percent over the next two years, after official tracking ended, meaning more than 841,000 borrowers were in default. Nearly as many were severely delinquent or not repaying their loans (for reasons besides going back to school or being in the military). The share of students facing serious struggles rose to 30 percent over all.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/25/opinion/sunday/student-debt-loan-default-college.html