Student Debt: 42% Live “Paycheck to Paycheck”

December 23, 2007 | Category: Debt

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From the Miami Herald the U.S. Department of Education of education reports that college debtors:

- 34 percent have sold possessions to make ends meet.
- 42 percent live “paycheck to paycheck”
- 39 percent say they will take more then 10 years to pay it all off.
- 27 percent put off medical or dental procedures.
- 48 percent suffer from anxiety and sleeplessness.
- 43 percent put off grad school.
- 47 percent say their families should have done more to save for college.