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US student debt project

A project exploring Americans' experience with student loan debt – a collaboration between the Guardian's Open team and the US Money section
  • US Money elderly loans

    US treasury collects $150m in student loan payments from social security benefits

    Older generations are paying student loans they can ill afford – out of their skimpy social security benefits
  • millennials savings

    We're collecting the best (and worst) financial advice for millennials. Care to share?

    Millennials, have your parents taught you how to save?
  • NYU New York University

    NYU's loans for summer homes highlights student debt injustice

    Helaine Olen: Why is NYU loaning money to star academics to buy vacation homes, at a time when its students are struggling to pay?

  • Move home after college

    Parents: did your kids move back home after college?

    Katie Rogers and Ruth Spencer

    We've heard from students who 'returned to the nest' after graduating and now it's time to hear the other side of the story

  • College students graduate

    Postgrad: your advice for surviving the unexpected move home

    Katie Rogers and Ruth Spencer

    Week two: just in time for graduation season, we're asking our student network for tips to enduring the move back to the nest

  • A graduation ceremony at Brighton University in the 1980s

    Postgrad: your advice for surviving the unexpected move home

    Katie Rogers and Ruth Spencer

    Week one: just in time for graduation season, we're asking our student network for tips to enduring the move back to the nest

  • 'What unites supporters of CDBU is their distaste for treating a university education as a commodity

    Why you don't need life insurance to protect against your child's debt

    It's easy to tell someone to save for their children's college, but higher education costs more than double since the 1980s

  • Law student studying

    Law students face uncertain future with jobs scarce and debt high

    Law school applications have dropped 20%, but current graduates grapple with high tuition fees and mounting debt

    This story was told thanks to readers in our Student Debt Network. Dealing with student debt? Join here

  • private university student debt

    Threat of debt drives US middle-class families away from private universities

    Many families being squeezed out of private colleges because their income is too high for financial aid, but too low for fees

  • Ruth Spencer

    What's it like living with six figures of student debt in America?

    Ruth Spencer
  • A university student

    US student loan debt by the numbers

  • Student debt project

    Should you pay off your US student loan debt quicker than scheduled?

    Don't get ambitious about your student loan bill. Build up a decent-sized emergency fund first

  • woman and households bills

    Six steps to tackling your student loans

    Any payment is a good payment, but a strategy can be useful too – even if your strategy means opening the envelope

  • Student loan interest rises

    Welcome to the Guardian US student debt project

    The system in the US seems broken and stacked against regular people – but we're here to tackle student loan debt with you

  • 'What unites supporters of CDBU is their distaste for treating a university education as a commodity

    Let's stop complaining about excessive student debt and do something about it

    Heather Long

    Heather Long: We all understand the student debt problem. It would be a big help if universities put a cap on student loans

  • Couple worried about debt

    The Guardian's Student Debt project: Join our growing network

    Ruth Spencer and Katie Rogers
  • Student debt 460

    How student loan servicers have a hold on your soul

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