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Death, Sex & Money

Coming Soon: Our Student Loan Secrets

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2017

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

More Americans are taking out more debt to pay for higher education, but we often don’t feel comfortable talking about our student loans. We want to show you that you’re not alone. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for audio picks, letters from our inbox and updates from the show. Sign up at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. Follow the show on Twitter @deathsexmoney and Facebook at facebook.com/deathsexmoney. Email us any time at deathsexmoney@wnyc.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Did you know what you were getting into when you took out these loans?

0:05.0

I think about that a lot. I have a lot of guilt and shame over that. I had the mindset I think of a I'll say a lot of 19 20 year

0:18.8

olds where I had really great expectations for how successful I was going to be.

0:24.0

What's your degree in?

0:25.8

Management and organizational development.

0:29.2

Are you glad you have that degree?

0:31.6

Hell no. Death, sex, and money is the show about the things we think about a lot and need to talk

0:40.5

about more.

0:42.2

That's how a lot of you feel about your student loans.

0:45.0

This is my dark place. We asked you to tell us about your student loans and we heard

0:51.2

from hundreds and hundreds of you. You've told us how much you owe?

0:55.5

I am.

0:56.7

10 grand, 80,000.

0:58.1

7500. $300,000.

1:01.1

Student loan debt. And you've told us how that debt has affected your life.

1:05.0

I ended up remarrying my ex-husband because I couldn't afford to pay my bills.

1:10.0

Your student loan debt has changed the way you feel about education and about the American dream.

1:16.4

I don't know how else to put it except that I almost made it.

1:19.7

I feel food and bamboozled.

1:21.6

We were told that like doors would open. That was not true.

1:26.7

I've done some stupid things in my life but this is probably one of the largest.

1:33.0

There are 44 million Americans who have student loan debt,

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