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Drowning in debt before they knew it

Danbury, Conn., News-Times

January 10, 2012

Increasingly, students who graduate and can't find good-paying jobs -- and even those that do find jobs -- are finding it hard to pay back student loans. Graduates blame the economy, the cost of tuition, and a society-fed notion that a college education is a necessity, even if it means going into debt. They also say that if they realized how much they'd end up owing, they may have never taken the loans.

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