Can I make an observation, which would get me flamed by liberals............
That $100K of debt didn’t just materialize overnight. It was accumulated over a period of years. She knew that as she went through school, year by year, that the cost and bills were adding up.
I don’t have the answer for this one girl. But clearly this girl needed a “mid course correction” as she was going through school.
Maybe she could have worked her way through school, as many have done before her.
Maybe she could have taken a semester or a year off, and worked, and saved the money for school.
Maybe she could have researched job fields and the appropriate education for some fields, and studied something which would have put her in line to get a decent job after graduation.
I don’t have the answers for this girl, but I do have a lot of questions that she should have been asking over the past ten years.
Maybe her parents should have learned the word ‘no’ and insisted that they couldn’t afford to co-sign for her to go to Boston and that she stay home and go to a local community college and university instead.
That right there would have fixed the whole problem.
The bottom line is that a 4-year university degree is not necessary for most people. K-12 can and should be tweaked to include more vocational paths, and 1 and 2 year colleges can train people inexepensively. This article merely exemplifies the point - she worked her buttocks off in school and with 8 jobs, still has $100,000 in debt, and works in the public sector. Doing what, I don’t know, but I am sure she could have learned most of what she needs to do her job either on the job or in vocational school.