Paying off a $150,000 student debt would be much easier with a starting salary of $100,000 than paying off a $50,000 debt with a starting salary of $37,000....
Few things can be relied on to catch people's attention as safely as big, round numbers and $1 trillion of student debt has been doing as good a job as any....
Federal student debt is getting out of control, but the private student loan market is very healthy, with low and improving delinquency and charge-off rates....
Our parents and grandparents were paying much less for college tuition than we do. And higher education keeps getting ever more expensive. Where does it end?...