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In reply to the discussion: Forgiving Student Loans..... [View all]Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)They are working hard to get their degrees and being given what are essentially predatory loans to do so. This isn't like it was for previous generations. The cost of higher education has skyrocketed and scholarships and grants aren't what they used to be. Whether or not higher ed should be free is another question, but we are approaching a major financial disaster if these loans are all defaulted on, and given the shitty wages most of these kids are graduating into, it is not looking good.
I would suggest ignoring the salacious headlines about kids with affluenza, or whatever image you have in mind, and read an actual nonfiction book called Kids These Days by Malcolm Harris if you want to know what most of these young people are really dealing with, both culturally and economically. As an aging Gen-Xer, it was eye-opening for me.