More and more Americans will go their entire lives paying back these student loans, there is 2.1 million Americans over the age of 60 that are still in debt from their student loans. This affects their entire life, it affects when they buy a home, when they buy a car, when they get married and when they will have children. This trend of insane growth in the cost of college tuition needs to stop. The United States has to follow other developed nations in making a college education affordable to the average American. In countries such as France, Germany and Norway, college is free, and the cost is absorbed by the taxpayers. This is the direction that America needs to go with the way it approaches a college education, because putting young people in lifelong debt because they want an education is
More and more Americans will go their entire lives paying back these student loans, there is 2.1 million Americans over the age of 60 that are still in debt from their student loans. This affects their entire life, it affects when they buy a home, when they buy a car, when they get married and when they will have children. This trend of insane growth in the cost of college tuition needs to stop. The United States has to follow other developed nations in making a college education affordable to the average American. In countries such as France, Germany and Norway, college is free, and the cost is absorbed by the taxpayers. This is the direction that America needs to go with the way it approaches a college education, because putting young people in lifelong debt because they want an education is