• Dettweiler
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    67 hours ago

    I’ve been paying on it for 12 years. I have paid over $20,000 to remove roughly $5,000 in principle. Most of the progress I made was from the 0% interest freeze during COVID. I will be in debt for the rest of my life unless we have some reform or I get a lucky windfall. Most student loan borrowers are in a similar, if not worse situation.

    People who are against student loan reform have absolutely no idea how predatory and broken the system currently is.

    • @ripcord
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      33 hours ago

      $20,000 over 12 years - you’re paying an average of $140/mo?

    • @boaratio
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      44 hours ago

      I’m 44 and still have one student loan left. Wife and 2 kids, and yet.