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Balancing Student Loans, Debt, and the College Experience

Going away to college to get the “college experience” is a reasonable goal, but making smart student loan decisions is critical.

It is ridiculous to argue that student loan forgiveness is a handout for the wealthy or a program that doesn’t benefit most Americans.

Minor tweaks to interest rates and student loan forgiveness could provide relief to millions of student loan borrowers.

Student loan borrowers need to face the facts: we won’t be getting student loan forgiveness for all. It is time to come up with a new plan.

Some Americans argue that college should be paid for by students instead of taxpayers. They say college is a privilege, not a right.

Many major media outlets get a lot of clicks by publishing “inspirational” student loan payoff success stories. This trend needs to stop.

Wealthy doctors and Harvard grads are not the people who would benefit from student loan forgiveness or debt cancellation programs.

As borrowers, we need to do a better job making the case for student loan forgiveness. We need to earn the empathy of our fellow Americans.

Yearly income certification trips up many federal borrowers and this problem could easily be avoided by automating the process.