More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years

Re:More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest nu... by Goronmon on Thursday January 13, 2022 @11:28AM (#29922600)

Most of these 'college debt is out of control' stories being pushed in the press, are usually focusing on outliers - i.e. people that borrowed $250K for multiple useless majors and now work at Starbucks because they chose badly. Public policy shouldn't be based on edge cases like this; not do we want to reward people for making bad decisions.

That's quite the story you've created for yourself. I'm sure it makes it easy to dismiss the issue out of hand.

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Re:More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest nu... by ejb999 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @01:00PM (#29924170)

Not a story at all - check for yourself what the median student debt is - people who owe $250K are outliers, not the average college graduate.

Pushing these $250K horror stories, is self serving to people who want all loans forgiven - even for those people who owe much less, and who can easily afford to make payments; of course people who owe money, would prefer to get let off the hook, who wouldn't.

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