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All Education Matters: More Thoughts About Recent Claims That Student Lending Crisis Does Not Exist

All Education Matters: More Thoughts About Recent Claims That Student Lending Crisis Does Not Exist:


More Thoughts About Recent Claims That Student Lending Crisis Does Not Exist

A few days ago, I wrote a piece in response to a discussion by higher education experts who are now claiming that, while student debt is growing, there is not a full blown crisis. Some of the panelists even went so far as to argue that stories about student loan debt are being "overblown" and "sensationalized." There are a number of reasons why this group of experts - who do not really engage with actual student loan debtors or activists who represent them - are making these misleading remarks.

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Take this mortgage scenario as an illustration of how they are pushing the "denial" message. Perhaps this group