Why Do Students Have So Much Debt?

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Going to college in America ain't cheap with each semester costing thousands upon thousands of dollars. How do American students pay for this and how did the price tag get so high? Today, Danielle takes a dive into the student debt crisis and examines the good intentions that led to it.

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Works Cited:
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Delbanco, Andrew. College: What it Was, Is and Should be. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2012.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York. “Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, Q4 2018” https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/hhdc.html. Accessed 9 April 2019.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York. “Total Household Debt Rises as 2018 Marks the Ninth Year of Annual Growth in New Auto Loans” https://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/news/research/2019/20190212. Accessed 9 April 2019.

Make Lemonade. “Refinance Student Loans.” https://www.makelemonade.co/loans/refinance-student-loans-consolidation/ Accessed 9 April 2019.

Occupy Solidarity Network, “Occupy Wall Street: We are the 99 Percent.” http://occupywallst.org/article/statement-occupy-student-debt-campaign/ Accessed 9 April, 2018.

Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education. “Mission and Purpose.” http://pellinstitute.org/mission_&_purpose.shtml. Accessed 9 April 2019.

United States Government, “National Defense Education Act of 1958.”
https://federaleducationpolicy.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/national-defense-education-act-of-1958-2/. Accessed 9 April, 2019 via the History of Federal Education Policy website. (Please ask your fact-checker if there is a better way for your audience to access the primary document)

University of Michigan, Office of Financial Aid. “Cost of Attendance.” https://finaid.umich.edu/cost-of-attendance/. Accessed 9 April 2019.

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