‘Killing the middle class’: millions in US brace for student loan payments after Covid pause
by Michael Sainato from US news | The Guardian on (#5SVG9)
Student debt in America has become a crisis for millions of citizens that often feels like it will last for people's whole lives
Jennifer Rae Wilson, a social worker and single mother of three children in Richland, Washington, has struggled with student loan debt since she went back to school and graduated in 2000 - more than two decades ago.
Struggling to raise three boys with very little child support, Wilson decided to attend college 10 years after graduating high school to improve her career prospects. She was eventually able to move out of low-income assistance housing and off government assistance programs.
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