NY Times article on student debt (5/12/12)

Parent Cafe
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<p>Yet another indicator that students and parents throw caution & economic reality to the wind when selecting colleges. Some of the quotes in this article make me want to have heart-to-heart conversations with all parties and then lobby all states that a Personal Finance class should be mandatory in Junior year of HS.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/business/student-loans-weighing-down-a-generation-with-heavy-debt.html?_r=1&hp[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/business/student-loans-weighing-down-a-generation-with-heavy-debt.html?_r=1&hp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>That is one scary article.</p>

<p>A Personal Finance class sounds good to me.</p>

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<p>Interesting that they did not use an example student from New York University (the usual place where articles of this nature find examples) on the first page of the article.</p>