A new infographic looks at the student loan debt catastrophe engulfing the United States and its millions of college graduates. The infographic examines where student loan debt is the most prevalent and some of the reasons why students have a difficult time paying back the money.
Here are a few of the takeaways from the infographic:
– Two in three students graduated with student loan debt
– The northeastern states have the highest rates of student loan debt
– Nearly half of those 25 to 34 cite unemployment or underemployment as reasons for struggling to pay back student loans
– Seventy percent of students in Pennsylvania graduate with debt
– Utah is the state with the lowest average of student debt
New Hampshire, though, is the state with the highest average of student loan debt with $32,440
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