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Debt has a strangling effect on the soul, does it not? It rakes up emotions of fear and anxiety, want and scarcity. We often feel alone and overwhelmed,
it s like, well, it s $10,000 a year to go to this school, and i ll take out a loan of $10,000. and then they jack up tuition, and then there s pressure , so that the loan can be $12,000, and that cycle keeps repeating itself. and the flip side is kids more than ever feel that they have to go to college to get even the most menial kind of job. the new york times did this study involving a law firm in atlanta, where even the clerks and the runners in the law firm had to have college degrees, just to work there. if you want any kind of job, you ve got to do this and you ve got to ride this debt dragon, and there s no way out of it. and so, even kids who are who have their eyes wide open are faced with this incredibly difficult choice, very early in life. i want to bring in the conversation, author of the book generation debt and diyu. and robert kelson, contributor to the washington monthly. robert helped devise washington monthly s best bang for the buck