Student debt

People demonstrate in Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington, June 30, 2023.

Student loans can be ‘simple’ and ‘automatic.’ Other countries offer lessons to the US.

September 1, 2023The price of higher ed

In the US, interest on student loans started accruing again on Sept. 1. Soon, more than 40 million borrowers will have to resume their payments. The US is an outlier when it comes to high tuition and the debts that students take on.

three white women outside laughing on a campus

Denmark pays students to go to college. But free education does have a price.

August 29, 2023The price of higher ed

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders faces a very large crowd of young people who hold their hands up in the air after he asks who among them has student loans.

#6. @realDonaldTrump What will you do to alleviate student loan debt? #100Days100Qs

January 25, 2017Education

Occupy Wall Street demonstrators wear signs around their neck representing their student debt during a protest against the rising national student debt in New York on April 25, 2012.

‘If you owe the bank $1 trillion, you own the bank,’ say student debtors who are fighting back

February 25, 2015Education

Students Buried in Debt Ask for Help

August 15, 2013