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Re:The Lasting Consequences of Student Debt by watwut on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @11:48AM (#14033935)
According to this article, people who went to college still do better then people who did not went to college in terms of home ownership. Which is exactly the same result I have seen in other similar stats.

They are not doing as good as they were expected to and that has consequences. However, the assumption so many people in this discussion take for granted - that young college graduates did overwhelmingly stupid decisions is simply wrong.

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Re:The Lasting Consequences of Student Debt by r_smart on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:02PM (#14034099)
Perhaps we're talking past each other here. You'll notice from my example that I and my friends all went to college. I'm not advocating against going to college. What I'm saying is there are a lot of options out there and the financial side should weigh in your decisions. I was getting a writing degree and decided that shooting for a big expensive school was probably a stupid idea. So I picked a far cheaper option, which allowed me to pay as I went, and graduate with ~$10k in loans after I finished.
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