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Re:US Household Debt Surpasses 2008 High by flukus on Thursday May 18, 2017 @03:38AM (#14365486)
> It gets more complicated in a non homogenous country with 56 times the population.

It's also divided into 51 smaller, more localized governments.

Re:US Household Debt Surpasses 2008 High by WillPostForFood on Thursday May 18, 2017 @03:56AM (#14365548)
If it was all delegated to them, it might work. But what you have instead is 50 secondary layers of bureaucracy, while the Federal govt holds firm control of the student loan market, and imposes control and regulation on colleges, using both carrot (R&D money) and stick (loans).