Our Student Loan Questions Live: Part One

Death, Sex & Money

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🗓️ 13 September 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Is loan forgiveness a safe bet? When is college not a good investment? Is bankruptcy an option? Part one of our live call-in specials about student loan debt. Get your questions ready for our second night of live student loans call-ins TONIGHT (Wednesday, Sept. 13) from 8-9 pm ET. Watch and listen live at facebook.com/deathsexmoney. The website that expert Rohit Chopra mentioned about public service loan forgiveness during our episode is http://forgivemystudentdebt.org/. Subscribe to our weekly email newsletter and we'll send you great audio recommendations, fascinating 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. Want to support Death, Sex & Money? Become a WNYC member today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	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
0:09.1	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.
0:17.0	This is death, sex, and money.
0:21.0	Is there anything that I can even do about my private loans?
0:24.4	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:27.7	How do I afford that?
0:28.9	And need to talk about more.
0:30.9	Is everybody just comfortable with living in debt?
0:34.7	I'm Anna Sale.
0:36.2	And this week over two nights I'm talking with you and with experts all about your questions
0:41.6	about student debt.
0:43.2	After we ran our series earlier this summer, we kept hearing from you.
0:47.8	There is a lot more you want to know and need to say about student loans.
0:52.2	You can go to death sex money
0:53.1	or slash student loans to see our coverage so far, but we wanted to have some
0:57.7	conversations live in real time so we could talk more together about the
1:02.1	best way to deal with your student loans.
1:05.0	Tonight, Wednesday, September 13th at 8 PM Eastern 5 Pacific,
1:10.0	you can join in to ask questions about what you should do with the student debt you already
1:14.2	have. We're live on WNYC radio in New York and on our Facebook page, call in and be a part of that
1:20.4	conversation. This episode is the conversation we had with you last night.
1:25.0	It's all about what structurally changed in the education system since the 2008 recession,
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