How Student Loans Are a Scam
December 26, 2022
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as posted by the channel“Millions of Americans are struggling to pay back their student loans. Director Blake Zeff travels the country to uncover the effects of student loan debt; he investigates who snuck two lines in the 1998 education bill, making student loans the only debt in America that can never be forgiven or erased through bankruptcy. ” is how MSNBC described our guest's recently released film, Loan Wolves. Watch it on Peacock here
Student debt is one of the most peculiar kinds of debts you can find in the United States of America. In 2018, 70% of students who graduated from college/university used some form of student loan in order to pay expenses, so it’s one of the most ubiquitous forms of debt. Ironically, although maybe it’s very on brand for this country, student debt is also one of very few types of debt that’s basically impossible to discharge. To learn more about how we got here, and where we could go, we brought on Director Blake Zeff to talk more about the amusing story of how this came to be.
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Wajahat Ali is a New York Times writer, TED Talk speaker and much more. Follow Wajahat on Twitter
Blake Zeff is the director of LOAN WOLVES, a “humorous and eyeopening” new documentary on student debt “confronting powerful enablers and challenging lies,” available now on Peacock. Follow Blake on Twitter
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