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Hard Times for Student Borrowers

By James H. Ewert Jr.

Kelly Lynch, a former Columbia College Chicago film and video major, is paying educational loan lender Sallie Mae $600 a month, about 1 percent of his total student loan debt of $60,000. Though Lynch, 21, never received his degree from Columbia and barely survives with freelance film and video work, he considers himself lucky. Lynch consolidated his loans through Sallie Mae… return to article

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    good article.  important article.
    quick correction on the student debt (bottom of page).
    it is not in the trillions.  It is 500+ billion.

    United States Posted by marso on Jul 2, 2008 at 4:51 PM
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