The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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What advice.....go to a community college. Commute if possible.

1970's...used H.E.L.P. loans. Spent every available dollar paying off those loans. Didn't do anything but work and pay those loans with summer jobs and after graduation for four years focused on paying off those loans,

What is your solution to this broken system?

kids need help with these decisions......This problem is primarily a failure of adults willing to be adults...

Yup...stop blindly promoting the idea that if you go to college you'll have financial security. Oh and I didn't feel it was my place to advise. The parents were all in on the decision. Part of the problem????

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Move the financing of education from the public sector back to the private, but have funding go through the institution that enrolled the student. Put them on the hook for loan losses. If their degree is worth the cost they shouldn't have any problems, with taking the financial risk.