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39: Is College Even Worth it?: The Dark History of Student Loans

2022/4/6
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The episode introduces the dark history of student loans, highlighting how they started as a means to ensure education for all but quickly turned into a significant burden for millions of Americans.

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Like pretty much everything we talk about, Student Loans started out as a great idea.  A way to ensure education for all. A way to advance America in the Space Race. And a way to promise citizens a brighter future. But as we’ve seen time and time again, with money on the table, student loans got dark, and FAST. Today we talk about how student loans came to be, how the evolved, and how they came to be something that plagues nearly 46 million Americans today. 

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