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Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

Student Debt At Record High, Don't Be Like These People

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

The First Digital Inc.

News, Politics, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9592 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The NY Times featured two young people who took drastic and shameful lengths to avoid paying their student debt. The Bible addresses this issue.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Politics by Faith.

0:05.6

It's where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible,

0:07.9

so that we can walk away with peace and perspective.

0:10.3

New headlines every single day, but Ecclesiastly says,

0:12.7

there's nothing new under the sun.

0:14.1

So thanks for being here to get the true story.

0:15.8

The story of the day, people are going to great lengths to not pay their student loans to bail out on debt, student debt in particular.

0:27.4

So what's really happening here?

0:28.6

A quick backstory.

0:29.7

We may touch on this again later in the week.

0:32.0

I'm not sure.

0:32.8

Yale University did a one-year-long study just concluded, led by 10 tenured professors on why everyone hates Yale.

0:42.4

And particularly, Ivy League, not just Yale and the Ivy League and higher education in general.

0:48.2

Specifically, why higher education has lost the trust, lost trust from the American people.

0:54.1

And it's a noble effort, and I appreciate them trying. lost trust from the American people.

0:56.6

And it's a noble effort, and I appreciate them trying.

0:59.2

And I read the reports 35 pages long.

1:01.8

And like I say, I think they did an excellent job.

1:05.9

They did an excellent job of identifying the perception that people have of them.

1:08.2

We do, in fact, hate them.

1:14.2

They did a good job identifying the problems and then also identifying the solutions.

1:16.0

I really think they nailed the report.

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