Name: Who’s getting rich off your student debt? by Reveal
Duration: 53 min 4 s
Description: Just about everyone involved in the student loan industry these days – banks, private investors and even the federal government – makes money off the borrowers. On this episode of Reveal, we explore how this happened and who’s profiting from student debt.

Thank you @Reveal and Jesse for sharing your story. I am a single mother of 3. My two oldest have each completed one full year of college and I have accumulated student loan debt totaling over $60k. Part of that debt was from my old, unpaid loans from when I went to college. I will be dead before this debt is paid. The part that makes me upset the most is the force feeding of the Parent Plus Loans. Essentially, students MUST incur debt and their parents must incur MORE debt to help their children go to college. A never-ending cycle of debt. Generations forever indebted to the US government in order to afford higher education. I do not see how my boys will be able to afford their second years of college. I can't afford anymore loans. Sigh

What!? This song is dope, who is this???  great episode BTW, private for-profit companies should not hold the reigns to the future of America's youth.

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written for Reveal - November 2015 episode #111.

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Just about everyone involved in the student loan industry these days – banks, private investors and even the federal government – makes money off the borrowers. On this episode of Reveal, we explore how this happened and who’s profiting from student debt.

Who’s getting rich off your student debt?

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Reveal is a new investigative reporting program from The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX. Available on public radio and online, the show examines what governments, businesses and communities are doing behind the scenes, hidden from public view. It's for anyone who is interested in stories that change our understanding of how the world works. 



Who’s getting rich off your student debt?

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