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Student debt can weigh you down long into adulthood, and might make you less likely to ever be able to retire. That's according to a new analysis from Demos, a progressive think tank. This chart shows the clear benefit of getting a college degree. Households with some college but no degree are

(New York, NY)- During the next few weeks thousands of students across the country will graduate from college, an accomplishment that used to symbolize a step toward financial independence and entry into the middle class.

[...] The nation’s yawning wealth gap is a major reason why minority students end up borrowing more for college. Structural racism has created disparities in home ownership rates, income and other wealth-building vehicles, providing minority borrowers with fewer resources to tap to pay for college

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson vowed that no student wishing to attend college would "be turned away because his family is poor." Half a century later, a shift in the way college is funded and the declining fortunes of minorities and poor families since the recession have created a college-debt

A comprehensive look at how the reality of debt-financed college impacts the whole pipeline of decision-making related to college.

Most students go into debt to pay for college. And while no one wants to be in the red, a new report from left-leaning think tank Demos argues that the increasingly debt-financed higher education system in the United States is especially harmful to low-income, black and Latino kids.

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One of the major concerns that surround unpaid internships is access. Wealthier students benefit; poor students don’t.

The most important fact about higher education is that only a minority of people go to college. That fact would change if college was affordable for more people.

[...] Given growing levels of student debt combined with stagnant incomes over the past few decades, “something has to give somewhere,” said Mark Huelsman, a senior policy analyst at Demos, a left-leaning think tank.