I don't think it was a good idea to even maybe go to college for the arts. And I always think,

if I have a kid and they want to pursue any sort of art, am I going to tell them to go to college?

I really don't think I will. And only for the reason of the loans.

This is death, sex, and money.

Is there anything that I can even do about my private loans?

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

How do I afford that?

And need to talk about more.

Is everybody just comfortable with living in debt?

I'm Anna Sale.

And this week, over two nights, I'm talking with you and with experts all about your questions about student debt.

After we ran our series earlier this summer, we kept hearing from you.

There's a lot more you want to know and need to say about student loans.

You can go to deathsexmoney.org slash student loans to see our coverage so far.

But we wanted to have some conversations live in real time so we could talk more together about

the best way to deal with your student loans.

Tonight, Wednesday, September 13th at 8 p.m. Eastern 5 Pacific, you can join in to ask questions about what you should do with the student debt you already have. We're live on WNYC Radio in New York and on our Facebook page, call in and be a part of that conversation. This episode is the conversation we had with you last night. It's all about what structurally changed in the education system

since the 2008 recession, who it's hurting the most, and how it's affecting your choices about

what to do when it comes to higher education. Listen now and join us again tonight for our second

and final night of live student loan callins.

I am at KQED in San Francisco, and to start this hour, I'm joined by Rohit Chopra, who is here to answer all of your questions about student loan policy. He's a senior fellow at the Consumer Federation of America. That's a new job for him this year. Before that, he was the assistant director and the ombudsman for student loans at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Thank you so much for joining us from WNYC. Hi, Rohit. Hi, Anna. I want to start right off the top from a question we got over and over again from listeners since we started collecting student loan stories earlier this year. People are wondering whether the Trump administration is going to change the public service loan forgiveness program. We already, in fact, have a call about that program. Julie, from Putnam Valley, New York, welcome to death, sex, and money.

Hi.

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