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Daily Kos: My Story: Trapped By For-Profit College Loan Debt

An excerpt by Summer Boggs, Student Supporter of Young Invincibles’ Campaign for For-Profit College Accountability:

“I feel trapped. I feel hopeless. And I feel angry that I was so misled. I have $170,000 in student loan debt from what’s known as a for-profit college. Schools like mine bill themselves as “career” colleges. But after borrowing mind-numbing sums to attend Florida Coastal School of Law, I’m drowning in debt, and working at a non-profit making $30,000 a year.  Not a lawyer’s salary, barely enough to make ends meet, and nothing extra to keep up with my massive monthly payments.” Read more here.