You signed a contract as an adult, and now you don't know how to pay it back. The truth is, you NEVER knew how you'd live up to your end of the agreement.

This is because your poor planning, not your victimhood.

If you get student loan relief then your degree should be taken away. You got a degree to enable yourself to earn more and live a better life, then you don't want to pay for it. If you get a mortgage and then cant pay it after a few years, the bank takes it back. You should not be able to benefit with something you agreed to pay for then defaulted.

100% you're own fault. You signed it, you agreed to it. If you couldn't pay it off then you shouldn't have gone to that school and applied for it.
More ignorant millennial BS.

it seems many murican students are up to their eyeballs in debt...

Stupidity is painful, $80,000.00 on a degree that pays $30,000.00 a year. You should have taken economics.

I have gotten a master in international taxation from Denmark, Tuitions fees is ZERO and my current dept connected to the study is and have been Zero all the time. We pay high taxes but get the value back in real life....

What gets lost in the conversation about college loan debt is the absolutely ridiculous increase in college costs over the last 20 years. We should be demanding they lower costs or accepting less fluff (do you really need 10 diversity executive level positions?) but no, we want to bail out students who voluntarily chose to take on the loans.

Hard to have sympathy for folks that got a Liberal Arts degree. All of these folks were adults when they started their degree program. Would have been far better off pursuing a trade but a lot of people think that's below them. My nephew in his mid 20s is making $125k+ a year as a pipefitter. He's a supervisor and that includes overtime - but still he is light years ahead of these people.

Interesting! I went to a trade school, have absolutely no student debt, and this was just about my salary last year..... But, good luck at that new gender studies job...... MORON!

Land of the 'free' lol

This was interesting reading these debts. For most it looks like most of these folk swerve not mature enough to go to college.
What were you thinking?

People who go into debt for a student loan are idiots. Usually for a liberal arts degree too that will get you 3/5 of f@#k all when you retire. Went to trade school. They paid me to learn and now I make over 100k a year. No debt.

I once met a lady that was getting her PhD from USC in Native American Studies.

How we put our people in debt for life. Especially when you cant even make enough to pay the interest and your debt keeps going up.

I despise people who say 'you signed the contract' like it has been carefully considered by wise, pipe smoking researchers instead of a 17 year old hormonal disaster dreaming of a bright future. Student loans is a FOR PROFIT business. Where there are profits, there are lies, half truths, wildly exaggerated promises.

#6 "My student loans is almost 90k."
Let me guess ... English major? Clearly you didn't get your money's worth; ask for a refund.

I said it before, and say it again: You live in the wrong country. In Norway, all education is free, exept books etc. Yes we pay taxes, but we are not in dept when we finnish the education. Some have student dept bacuse of the need to pay rent for apartments, but that is chosen. But no way near 100k+. Maybe around 20-30k.
The big problem with USA, is that the tax is so low, and the rich nearly do not pay taxes. Giving birth is free in Norway, changing a heart, free. Tax is king.

Higher education is even free for US citizes in Norway. I pay for it, but i gladly do so.

Endowments. Why do they exist? Why are they so ginormous?

American problems.