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Crushing load of student debt affecting more young Americans

Kansas City Star

December 9, 2011

Brie Miller owes nearly $150,000 in college-loan debt. With college tuition fast outpacing inflation and joblessness stubbornly high, Miller is not alone in a deepening pool of young Americans way over their heads. Still not in default on her repayments, the 26-year-old public servant teeters at the brink. "It's awful," she said. "I've cried a bucket of tears. My husband and I will never be able to buy a house, or afford to start a family, or contribute to the economy. The whole point of going to college was to have a better future, but now I have a worse one."

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