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    nation’s sensitive concept. The debt has been collecting significant value throughout the years between various school loans, credit card debt and many more ways to create debt. The average American family owes over $100,000 dollars to the government. Debt is typically created by the different loans needed in order to live comfortable in a highly developed country like America. Every loan received by an individual has an interest rate, which is a percent increase in a specific time frame. With increasing

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    income is insufficient. The basic model of the LCH, however, does not explicitly consider financial shocks, such as an unexpected health condition and the corresponding impact to savings or the accumulation of debt. Debt associated with a home or car loan is viewed as a necessity while credit card debt is frequently viewed as excessive spending; but in reality, those in severe credit card debt are often those who have experienced a recent job loss and/or health problems (Drentea & Lavrakas, 2000). As

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    accumulation of student debt—which has quadrupled since 2004 to $1.2 trillion in 2015—the United States needs to take immediate actions to resolve this issue. This is not to say that loans should be despised and avoided; while they may benefit the borrower—and surely, a few are able to successfully pay off their loans—they negatively impact the national economy at large. As a result of excessive debt, the case of student-loan delinquencies and defaults has gone up since more students are not able to

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    Since America’s formation over 200 years ago, anyone who immigrates or is born in the U.S. has hope to fulfil the American Dream. The rags to riches mentality is infectious and has seeped its way into every aspect American culture from literature to the workforce. Since the beginning America has been the land of opportunity; everyone has equal chances to succeed. A melting pot of cultures, religions, and ethnicities, America embodies equality and fairness, or at least it has claimed to. Since its

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    word 'ticks' meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.” (Hardiman). If that’s not enough to scare you from these politicians, CNN contributor William Bennett stated, “Last week, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported that student loan debt increased to $956 billion, more than auto loan debt or credit card debt.” (Bennett1). Politicians have been decreasing funding over the last decade, which has forced schools to upsurge tuition, “Tuition increases have made up only part of the

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    those responses, so we can make your job a little easier. Can qualify a borrower using the Income Based Repayment (IBR) for their student loan on a Conventional loan? Yes, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac allow you to use the monthly payment reflected on the borrower’s credit report. However, if no monthly payment reported on the credit report for the student loan, 1% of the outstanding balance will be considered to be the monthly amount for qualifying purposes. Refer to the Home Point Selling

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    After graduating high school, I had decided to take a path that is more common now than it used to be. I will be going to school at community college first to get general education course done right away and cheaper, then I will transfer over to a public school to finish off my bachelor’s degree. I thought long and hard on what I wanted to do for the rest of my life and I decided that I wanted to major in interior design and minor in business. As this is a growing industry, more and more people are

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    really need to go to college to succeed in life? Is the student loan debt worth it? Some people would say college education is worth the expense of tuition, but others would say college education is not worth the expense of tuition. Some people think we need to go to college to be successful in life. But I disagree. I don’t think we need to go to college to be successful in life, and this is why. Although we can get scholarships is the student loan debt worth it? When we go to college, we go there to

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    managed correctly—are relatively benign. Particularly when compared to the much more harmful and far less scrutinized form of debt, private debt—debt that is accumulated by private citizens and corporations through credit cards, mortgages, student loans, corporate loans, etc. It is time private debt and the multitude of reasons it is a cause for concern are discussed more widely. Public debt in the United States is in the region of $18 trillion and a little over 100% of GDP. Private debt on the other

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    There is a vast assortment of literature on student loans and debt that particularly emphasize the situations, especially on the young students. The author of “Generation Debt”, Anya Kamenetz did a literature work on the debt problems of students between ages of 18-34 year. This author explains how student loans have been and will continue to negatively affect student’s financial and educational choices because the cost of attending college has been increasing. A research work conducted by Williams

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