>>A decade-plus later, I, like many millennials, have more than $100,000 in student loan debt<<
That kind of answers itself — 10+ years in college? Get a job!
Oh, and any student debt forgiveness had better be retroactive to the mid-1970s.
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.
Mid seventies sounds about right. Adjusted for inflation of course. Getting back that $1,500 loan would be nice...but it would cover one mortgage payment today.