The politics of student loans

A sobering series on college costs, the most recent post of which looks at the federal government's outstourcing to collection agencies to run down the delinquent in repaying their student loans. 

The link below is to the New York Times most recent article on the costs of college, both monetary and political.  All are sobering accounts of how students and their families have paid dearly for their detachment from politics and policymaking.  The problem, though, is that the anti-government and anti-political detachment fostered by this detachment only makes it worse.

Debt Collectors Cashing In on Student Loan Roundup

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