Student loan borrowers are figuring out how to budget for their loan payments just months after promises that tens of thousands would be forgiven.
on Sunday after a three-and-a-half-year pandemic pause allowed millions of Americans to push off repaying trillions of dollars in student loan debt."It's kind of disheartening and scary," said Griffin Bird, a senior at the University of Washington.
KING 5 reached out to the Washington Student Achievement Council, an agency that advocates for the benefits of higher education, about the grim numbers facing the Evergreen State. In fact, data from the US Department of Education shows the average debt for those 24 and under is around $13,000. That jumps to $31,000 for those 25-34 and even higher at $44,000 for people 35-43.
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