Our Student Loan Secrets, Part 1

Death, Sex & Money

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🗓️ 25 September 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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More Americans are taking out more student loan debt and taking longer to pay it back. But we don't often talk about the impact that it has on our lives. Explore more than 4,000 of your stories about student loans, find out where you fit in the student loan landscape and get resources for dealing with your debt at deathsexmoney.org/studentloans. This week's newsletter includes updates on some of the people featured in today's episode. Subscribe at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter and we'll send you weekly audio picks, behind the scenes updates and letters from our listener inbox. 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	Who knows about your student loan debt?
0:03.0	Um, the government.
0:07.0	Actually, I, it's pretty, it's a secret for me.
0:10.0	Definitely a secret.
0:12.0	So you're coming out in a big way.
0:14.0	Oh, God, I'm sweating right now.
0:17.0	Yeah, it is.
0:19.0	And I'm hoping this is going to make me keep myself accountable
0:21.5	to actually starting these student loans. This is death, sex, and money. I am worth negative
0:31.0	$100,000, $1,000. The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. I'll never be able to pay them all back.
0:39.0	And need to talk about more.
0:41.0	I was told I will be A-OK.
0:44.0	I'm Anna Sale.
0:46.8	And this week, we're revisiting your stories about student loan debt.
0:51.4	We first brought you this series back in 2017, three years after our listener
0:56.0	Jordan finished college. A few months after her graduation, she got her first student loan bill.
1:02.0	I just didn't pay. Like, I just felt like, how can you expect me to start paying you $700 a month,
1:09.8	which is just a crazy number.
1:12.8	And, like, I can't even afford to pay rent.
1:14.7	So paying $700 a month is just not feasible.
1:17.4	How much do you owe in student loans?
1:19.4	Oh, God, $58,000.
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