Hard times for US students
Students in the US are graduating with a debt mountain to climb – and now they will have to pay more in loan interest.
Published On 2 Jul 2013
Education in the United States has never come cheap. The average student graduates with almost $35,000 of debt – and now a law change has doubled the interest payable on federal loans offered by the government.
The collective student debt in the US is now well over a trillion dollars Al Jazeera’s Tom Ackerman reports on the hurdles young Americans face to get an education.
Source: Al Jazeera