When college loans come due.

• Author: Herbert, Bob
• Position: OPINION - Brief article

At a time when a college education is a virtual, prerequisite for establishing and maintaining a middle-class standard of living, we're making it more difficult for young people to afford college. Thousands of well-qualified students are being shut out of college and denied the benefits and satisfactions of higher education because they can't meet the ever-escalating costs. Two thirds of all graduates now leave college with some form of debt. The average amount is close to $20,000. Some owe many times that. College graduates with enormous debt burdens face...