Student loans have increased by 84% since the recession... 40 million Americans have at least one student loan with average balance of $29k.

Adam Rifkin
4:53 PM Jan 19 2016

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Michele Raneri, Experian’s Vice President of Analytics, provides insight on the current state of student lending:

Nationally, student loans have increased by 84% since the recession
40 million consumers now have at least one student loan with an average balance of $29,000
That's a total of $1.2 trillion in student loan debt.

Adam Rifkin
4:57 PM Jan 19 2016

Crazy sad...

David and Chris Mikkelsen
10:02 AM Jan 20 2016

Even sadder is who's profiting:

Adam Rifkin
1:16 PM Jan 20 2016