Life in fine print: understanding your student loan
All week we’ve been following the ways in which our lives have become inundated with fine print. For the fourth segment in our series, Takeaway contributor Beth Kobliner, author of “Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance In Your Twenties and Thirties,” looks at why more people are defaulting on student loans than ever before and how you can avoid being buried by the fine print.
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