{"id":18699,"date":"2019-03-18T12:32:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T20:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/the-cost-of-student-debt\/"},"modified":"2019-03-18T12:32:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T20:32:03","slug":"the-cost-of-student-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/the-cost-of-student-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost Of Student Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2019\/03\/18\/704519971\/the-cost-of-student-debt?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\">Stacey Vanek Smith<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2019\/03\/18\/704519971\/the-cost-of-student-debt?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/03\/18\/trillion-f22d312e8d90fbe06b09188901b4cd991ee6a60a-s1100-c15.png\" alt=\"student debt\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n            <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/03\/18\/trillion-f22d312e8d90fbe06b09188901b4cd991ee6a60a-s1200.png\">Enlarge this image<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <span><\/p>\n<p>        NPR<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- END ID=\"RES704570149\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK MEDIAPROMO PRIMARY\" --><\/p>\n<p>Getting a higher education degree \u2014 whether it&#8217;s an Associate&#8217;s, a Bachelor&#8217;s, or something else \u2014 increases your earning potential over your life. But going to school is expensive, and Americans have more than $1.5 trillion worth of outstanding student debt. That debt isn&#8217;t exclusively held by the students: people over 60 are the fastest-growing segment of student loan borrowers, as parents and grandparents are increasingly taking out loans to help their kids and grandkids go to college.<\/p>\n<p>Jill Schlesinger, CFP and author of &#8220;The Dumb Things Smart People Do With Their Money,&#8221; joins to talk student debt and look at how parents and grandparents can talk to their kids about college without sacrificing their own financial futures.<\/p>\n<p><em>Music by <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dropelectric.com\/\"><em>Drop Electric<\/em><\/a><em>. Find us: <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/theindicator\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><em>\/ <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?ref=home#%21\/planetmoney?ref=ts\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Subscribe to our show on <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-indicator-from-planet-money\/id1320118593?mt=2\"><em>Apple Podcasts<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/pca.st\/tLRP\"><em>PocketCasts<\/em><\/a><em> and <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/n.pr\/indicator\"><em>NPR One<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2019\/03\/18\/704519971\/the-cost-of-student-debt?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Cost Of Student Debt\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2019\/03\/18\/704519971\/the-cost-of-student-debt?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2019\/03\/18\/704519971\/the-cost-of-student-debt?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/03\/18\/trillion-f22d312e8d90fbe06b09188901b4cd991ee6a60a-s1100-c15.png\" alt=\"student debt\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n            <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/03\/18\/trillion-f22d312e8d90fbe06b09188901b4cd991ee6a60a-s1200.png\">Enlarge this image<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <span><\/p>\n<p>        NPR<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- END ID=\"RES704570149\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK MEDIAPROMO PRIMARY\" --><\/p>\n<p>Getting a higher education degree \u2014 whether it&#8217;s an Associate&#8217;s, a Bachelor&#8217;s, or something else \u2014 increases your earning potential over your life. But going to school is expensive, and Americans have more than $1.5 trillion worth of outstanding student debt. That debt isn&#8217;t exclusively held by the students: people over 60 are the fastest-growing segment of student loan borrowers, as parents and grandparents are increasingly taking out loans to help their kids and grandkids go to college.<\/p>\n<p>Jill Schlesinger, CFP and author of &#8220;The Dumb Things Smart People Do With Their Money,&#8221; joins to talk student debt and look at how parents and grandparents can talk to their kids about college without sacrificing their own financial futures.<\/p>\n<p><em>Music by <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dropelectric.com\/\"><em>Drop Electric<\/em><\/a><em>. Find us: <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/theindicator\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><em>\/ <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?ref=home#%21\/planetmoney?ref=ts\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Subscribe to our show on <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-indicator-from-planet-money\/id1320118593?mt=2\"><em>Apple Podcasts<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/pca.st\/tLRP\"><em>PocketCasts<\/em><\/a><em> and <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/n.pr\/indicator\"><em>NPR One<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}