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Are you a US college graduate struggling to pay back student loan debt? Join our network
The Guardian's Student Debt project: Join our growing network
(17 days later)
If you feel like you'll never get out from under your student loan payments, or you're currently in school and already wondering how you're going to manage when you graduate, we'd like to talk to you.
If you feel like you'll never get out from under your student loan payments, we'd like to talk to you.
In conjunction with the launch of our new personal finance section Guardian Money, we're asking readers to help us tell their stories and experiences of debt, work and the economy. If you sign up below, you'll be a part of our coverage of student debt in the US.
Our Student Debt Project is powered by a network of readers who are sharing their stories and experiences of debt, work and the economy. If you sign up below, you'll be a part of Guardian Money's coverage of student debt in the US, and we'll help you tell a more nuanced and personal story of your experience.
Recent figures paint a dramatic picture: According to the Federal Reserve, student debt in the US is approaching $1tn – a number disputed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which says that milestone has already been reached.
We want to hear about the choices and sacrifices and complex situations that you've been facing. What are you sacrificing in order to pay down your debt? Is it a career? A location? What financial services companies are targeting you – and with what offers?
Join our source network, and you'll help us tell a more nuanced and personal story of debt. We want to hear about the choices and sacrifices and complex situations that you've been facing. What are you sacrificing in order to pay down your debt? Is it a career? A location? What financial services companies are targeting you – and with what offers?
We want to know how it affects you in the short-term, mid-term and long-term. We're looking to hear from current students, new graduates and mid-career workers about how their student debt affects them. We're looking for degree holders of all levels. A few projects so far:
We want to know how it affects you in the short-term, mid-term and long-term. What do you worry about most? Which lending companies are most predatory? We're curious what decisions you've made, and what decisions you will or won't even approach because you're in debt.
Living with six figures of debt
We're interested in how your experiences may differ from others simply because of where you live – or the career you've chosen.
Law students: jobs scarce, debt high
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Threat of debt at private universities
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