INFOGRAPHIC: The New Indentured Servitude | Sojourners

INFOGRAPHIC: The New Indentured Servitude

Education debt is crippling students, and America's response gets a failing grade.

While President Obama's "Student Aid Bill of Rights" is a prudent and necessary step towards aiding college students, his announcement comes late for the seven million borrowers already indentured to their education debt. In "Forgive Us Our Debts" (Sojourners, April 2015), Virginia Gilbert investigates the cause-and-effect battle of education debt and the way it is hindering a generation of college students. How big is the student debt burden? See below for the poor report card reveal. 

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