Senior citizens hold more student debt: a Wall Street Journal report

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Senior citizens hold more student debt: a Wall Street Journal report
Bryan Alexander, 2019/02/04
You won't be able to access this Wall Street Journal report unless you've paid for a subscription, but this post from Bryan Alexander will do the job just fine. Here's the gist: " American senior citizens are holding a growing amount of student loan debt." There are numbers and statistics showing the student debt held by people in their golden years remains in the billions of dollars. To put the issue in local context here in Ontario, about 40% of students qualified for free-tuition grants to low-income students under a program recently cancelled by the provincial government. Now these students will carry this cost as student debt after they graduate. More...