We Have to Let Students Go Bankrupt Again

 

http://www.mainstreet.com/article/moneyinvesting/credit/debt/we-have-let-students-go-bankrupt-again

 

 as appearing in The Street

 

 

 

BOSTON (MainStreet) — We've all heard the figures: Student loan debt in the United States now exceeds $1 trillion dollars, surpassing our nation's collective credit card debt.

Yet, unlike our credit card debt — or any other debt, for that matter — student loans for the most part cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. A report released in August by the Center for American Progress, though, calls for that to change.