This data is what I used to convince my parents were very much anti-student loan forgiveness (we paid ours so you get to suffer too), that a certain level of it

This data is what I used to convince my parents were very much anti-student loan forgiveness (we paid ours so you get to suffer too), that a certain level of it is appropriate. I honestly don’t think a lot of people realize just how bad its gotten. Couple this with the fact that somehow budget is limiting the number classes being offered with the extra 1.5 semesters on average of additional general education requirements, and you’ve created a system that predates new adults, pushing them underwater from the start. A bit ironic that we’ve had the lowest wage growth in 60+ years just as the cost to get a degree, the default requirement for almost any job, skyrocketed. These loans students took out to go to university cannot be dismissed and will follow you until the day you die. This debt bondage of people just turning 18, is pure horseshit. We supposedly outlawed indentured servitude but it’s still style alive and well, and our machiavellian, geriatric congress in the US has offered nothing besides cruel indifference, useless excuses, and is distracted arguing about shit like drag performance and bathrooms? Like what the fuck.