"With more than $1 trillion in student loans outstanding in this country, crippling debt is no longer confined to dropouts from for-profit colleges or graduate students who owe on many years of education, some of the overextended debtors in years past. " (A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College, New York Times, May 12, 2012)
Getting an education should not leave you with a debt you spend the rest of your life paying off. When we are taking student loan payments out of people's Social Security checks, something is very wrong.
An educated nation is a nation which cannot compete. Student loan reform is desperately needed, but in the interim, forgive student loans.