How can 'charities' that are 'dedicated' to providing 'education' to the youth of America quadruple their real prices for the same product? Drive tens of millions of trusting young adults into immense debt? And these colleges are run by dedicated liberals who "care" about "human values" and "scorn" the base pursuit of filthy lucre. This is a problem of accountability: neither Universities, governments nor other big charities are effectively accountability to the public. They are largely exempt from the competition, regulation and critical scrutiny that keep private firms much more honest and productive. HT Instapundit.
Total student debt stands at $966 billion as of the fourth quarter of 2012, the N.Y. Fed said in press materials, with a 70% increase in both the number of borrowers and the average balance per person. The overall number of borrowers past due on student loan payments has grown from under 10% in 2004 to 17% in 2012.
Fewer people with student loans are buying homes, according to data in the report. Of borrowers ages 25 to 30 who are taking out new mortgages, the percentage of those with student debt has fallen by half, from nearly 9% in 2005 to just above 4% in 2012.
“The higher burden of student loans and higher delinquencies may affect borrowers’ access to other types of credit and the performance of other debt,” the fed report concluded.
Educational debt is now the largest consumer liability after mortgages.
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