Student debt: more people, paying more money, and mounting year on year
by Cory Doctorow from on (#39B57)
Dissident economic statistician Matt Bruenig (previously) has parsed the latest numbers from the Survey of Consumer Finances, and brings us the news of the increased democratization of student debt: in 1989, only 16% of students and their families carried student debt -- in 2016, it was 44%. (more")