Lazy journalists manage to present the details of the poor schmuck graduates who have large loan balances they cannot service, but they never find time to cover the poor schmuck taxpayers who have to pick up the tab for the degree in Women's Studies at Brown that didn't led to a productive job with enough disposable income to pay back the debt.
What could this dude with a law degree have produced that was beneficial to society? Could he ever have produced $55k worth? How did he live in the last 25 years? New cars, vacations, divorces? Media sob stories usually ignore 1/2 of the story.